Permission Slips Are Not Required

Hi there,

My last letter to you was in late March. Time has flown by! I hope you’ve been doing well, maintaining your peace, and carving out time for joy.

Since March, I’ve been undergoing a major transition that compelled me to pause almost everything and focus entirely on regaining my footing.

The month of April was marked by packing and moving out of state after having lived in (and near) Atlanta for almost seven years. I spent time each day leading up to it throwing away and donating items — basically letting go of things that I didn’t intuitively feel needed to come with us in this next chapter. This entire process has been both freeing and a little painful, but I think God has been prepping me to deal with it since last summer.

Last summer, I asked for the opportunity to radically shift my life to align more closely with what I was placed here to do and the life vision we’ve said we want. We’ve massively leaped towards that, but it didn’t come without clearing away the old to make w…