I don’t remember the exact moment it happened, but after I was saved, I started having ah-ha moments - realizing I had been acting on what I was hearing in the dark instead of what I was hearing in the light. For years, I allowed peer pressure, judgment, fear, and others’ expectations to dictate how I lived, struggling through a life that wasn’t meant for me. Then came the profound realization: This woman I was becoming wasn’t someone new - she was who I was created to be all along. I went from feeling like I was working on being a ‘new’ person to knowing I was simply stepping into who I always was. The peace that came with this truth was incredible - I wasn’t broken, I was just buried.