God In Me

Redwan is his name.

I don’t know him. We only exchanged words because he chose to sit close to the water and on the ground, over sitting on the dock that was only yards away. I learned he comes to sit, be still, close to nature and to pray. The sun is setting and the time will come where he must purify himself and wash his face and arms.

We exchanged a few last words and after thanking me for capturing him in an organic way he says to me, “you have come for the same thing, to reflect and be close to God—your energy is peaceful and calm; your approach is attractive.” He didn’t mean it with intimacy or in a flirtatious way, but with adoration and kindness .

Yet in the middle of my storm, the stirring of all my thoughts, my heavy heart, and the weight I was casting out into the waters to drown…he said your Spirit is calming.What he saw, was God in me coming through.

It was an unpeeling moment. The moment where I realized the saying about “inner beauty” shining through, is really a representation of the Spirit that resides within. It dwells at the core, the fiber of one’s being, an energy that attracts because it is unseen yet felt profoundly. I am grateful for the reminder that Redwan gave me. No matter what you have going on in your world or the challenges life puts you through, when your connected to God in a reliant of Him way kind of way, He resides in you, and it shows.

You’re Waking Up, on the Inside.