For the past several weeks, butterflies have been following me everywhere.

Yellow butterflies. White butterflies.

Following me across Costa Rica, Chicago, and places I never expected.

At first I thought it was a coincidence…then I realized they are my reminders.

Because a butterfly is proof that G-D designed transformation into creation itself.

A caterpillar doesn’t become a butterfly overnight. It goes into complete surrender. Everything it once was dissolves before it becomes what it was always meant to be…G-Ds glory.

Maybe that’s what redemption looks like.

I came home from Costa Rica convinced that redemption isn’t something we wait for. It’s something we actively participate in.

For a week I watched women from different generations and different walks of life become sisters. Walls came down. Hearts opened. Pain became healing. We stopped trying to impress one another and started truly seeing one another.

I left believing something simple…every human being carries a DIVINE spark.

Sometimes it’s shining brightly. Sometimes it’s buried beneath trauma, addiction, shame, fear, or the........

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