My Life In Word

Have you ever felt like you know something about yourself intrinsically but didn’t know it on a conscious level? Then one day, a day like the many that have come and gone, you have a self-realized moment. In that moment, it is like someone switched the light on and a revelation fell from the sky. The revelation seems familiar; it isn’t entirely foreign to you because it is a part of you. A part of you that has been lost and patiently waiting for you to pick it up from where you dropped it off for safekeeping.  

Well, I had that moment just recently. I was sitting out on my front porch swing listening to the morning’s birdsong and watching God paint the cloud-puffed sky in hues of red, yellow, orange, and blue. As I sat there breathing in His creation, I realized that I had found myself again. I felt who I am had come back to life. In that moment, I searched my soul, trying to remember the last time I felt like me. I traveled back months, then years. It wasn’t pandemic-related, so I kept moving back. When my mental time travel was complete, I had landed in the year 2013. I hadn’t realized that I’d been lost to myself for so long. Not really lost because she had been sitting here on this porch swing all these years patiently waiting for me to pick her up. Like Janie, from Their Eyes Were Watching God”, I’d placed myself on a shelf for safekeeping. Back in 2013, my spirit must have known that for the next eight years I was gonna go through some things, and for safekeeping, she sent my soul here to sabbatical on this porch swing until we were ready to meet again.  

Now, I didn’t walk this road of rediscovery alone. God had a plan, and he placed someone on my path to remind me where I’d sent my soul to rest. As I walked down the path of rediscovery, I wandered into the Metaverse. While in the Metaverse, I ran into its caretaker ― a Mette, pronounced “Meta”.  

Have you ever met a Mette?  

She is like soul-skin (African-Americanized from the Danish word solskin, meaning ‘sunshine’)! You see, soul-skin embraces you with warmth and encapsulates your heart with kindness. Leaving your soul yearning to bask in the purity of her essence. She is sun and light and love, all wrapped up in one being. Who could have birthed a beautiful soul such as this?  

To this Giver of Life,

Thank you for pouring warmth and kindness and goodness and light and love and sunshine into the precious vessel that God entrusted you with, that she could bring light into the world. More notably, my world!   Her light shone on a part of me that I had forgotten. Unwittingly, she watered and cultivated that long-lost seed inside of my soul and resurrected that little girl inside that I had hidden for self-preservation.  

To my Soul-Skin,  

Thank you for shining your refractive light into the depths of my soul, lighting the pathway back to that little girl lost. Whether you be a part of my life for a season, for a lifetime, forever or a year, I will always be grateful that God chose you to light my way back to me. You will be forever…

My Soul Sister,

My Kindred,

My Ven,

My Solskin,

My Soul-Skin!

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