Today is my birthday.
When I was 18, I went to jail.
At the time, I thought my life was over. Everything I had planned, dreamed about, or imagined for myself—gone. Just like that. I remember praying, over and over again, for a reset. I didn’t even know what I was asking for, I just knew I needed something different—something new.
While I was inside, I heard a saying that stopped me in my tracks.
"If you change the inner attitude of your mind, then you can change the outer aspects of your life." In other words: change your thinking, change your life.
That saying hit me deep. It wasn’t just motivational talk. It was truth. It was power. It was the real definition of transformation. It showed me that real change doesn’t start with fixing everything around you—it starts with your mindset. That’s when I realized: my prayer for a "reset" wasn’t about getting my old life back. It was about becoming someone new.
Jesus said: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
That line struck me just as deeply. Maybe because, in his own way, he was saying the same thing. Repent—change your thinking. The kingdom of heaven—a whole new way of life is right here, right now.
That’s what I had been stumbling toward in that dark season. I was being invited to reset. To repent. To be born again.
And not in some mystical, float-away kind of way. I’m talking about the kind of born again that makes you sit up straighter. The kind that gives you clarity. That makes you treat people differently. That makes you carry yourself like you have something to offer—because you do.
It’s wild to say this out loud, but my time in prison was actually the place where I began to be free.
Not because of the conditions—but because of the shift that happened on the inside. I stopped seeing myself as broken, stuck, or done. And I started seeing myself as someone who still had purpose. Someone who could pull beauty from the ashes.
That’s where I am today.
Still growing. Still learning.
But now I carry something I didn’t have back then: a word for the weary.
A testimony that overcoming is possible.
A story that’s not pretty, but it’s real—and it’s mine.
If you’re reading this and you feel like your life is stuck in a loop, or worse—like it’s spiraling—you might just be in the middle of your own reset. Don’t fear it. Don’t run from it. Sometimes the breakdown is just making space for the breakthrough.
Change your thinking.
And watch your life follow.
Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
Today is my birthday.
When I was 18, I went to jail.
At the time, I thought my life was over. Everything I had planned, dreamed about, or imagined for myself—gone. Just like that. I remember praying, over and over again, for a reset. I didn’t even know what I was asking for, I just knew I needed something different—something new.
While I was inside, I heard a saying that stopped me in my tracks.
"If you change the inner attitude of your mind, then you can change the outer aspects of your life." In other words: change your thinking, change your life.
That saying hit me deep. It wasn’t just motivational talk. It was truth. It was power. It was the real definition of transformation. It showed me that real change doesn’t start with fixing everything around you—it starts with your mindset. That’s when I realized: my prayer for a "reset" wasn’t about getting my old life back. It was about becoming someone new.
Jesus said: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."
That line struck me just as deeply. Maybe because, in his own way, he was saying the same thing. Repent—change your thinking. The kingdom of heaven—a whole new way of life is right here, right now.
That’s what I had been stumbling toward in that dark season. I was being invited to reset. To repent. To be born again.
And not in some mystical, float-away kind of way. I’m talking about the kind of born again that makes you sit up straighter. The kind that gives you clarity. That makes you treat people differently. That makes you carry yourself like you have something to offer—because you do.
It’s wild to say this out loud, but my time in prison was actually the place where I began to be free.
Not because of the conditions—but because of the shift that happened on the inside. I stopped seeing myself as broken, stuck, or done. And I started seeing myself as someone who still had purpose. Someone who could pull beauty from the ashes.
That’s where I am today.
Still growing. Still learning.
But now I carry something I didn’t have back then: a word for the weary.
A testimony that overcoming is possible.
A story that’s not pretty, but it’s real—and it’s mine.
If you’re reading this and you feel like your life is stuck in a loop, or worse—like it’s spiraling—you might just be in the middle of your own reset. Don’t fear it. Don’t run from it. Sometimes the breakdown is just making space for the breakthrough.
Change your thinking.
And watch your life follow.
Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.
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