The Sacred Investment

In reflection, I’ve come to see something clearly
The greatest investment I ever made was in myself

Not in a self-centered way. In the most sacred way
Because every time I was guided to work on myself
To pause
To heal
To grow
I was being called home

What I once saw as personal development
Was really a path of divine remembrance

Each inner shift brought me closer to the truth
I wasn’t just becoming more me
I was uncovering the Kingdom of God within me

The Sacred Shift

I used to think seeking the Kingdom meant striving toward something distant
Something beyond me
A spiritual ideal I had to work hard to reach

But the greatest investment I ever made in myself revealed a different truth
It showed me the Kingdom was never far
It was never outside
It was waiting to be seen within me

Not as a concept
As a living presence
As divine intelligence already alive in my being

I didn’t have to climb toward heaven
I had to soften inward
To meet what had always been there

The shift wasn’t about where I looked
It was about what I recognized

Know Yourself Know the Kingdom

The more I invested in myself
The more I began to see who I truly was

Not just a personality or a past
A vessel of light
A reflection of something holy

That is when the words know yourself came alive
Because to know myself was to remember the part of me that could never be lost
The stillness beneath the noise
The wholeness beneath the roles

As I came to know that part of me
I realized I was coming to know the Kingdom
Not as an idea
As direct experience

The search was always an invitation inward
And the deeper I went
The clearer it became
I am what I was seeking

The Humble Realization

This knowing didn’t come with grandeur
It came with reverence

I could finally say in the most sacred way
God is me

Not separate
Not distant
Not out there

God is the light in my breath
The stillness in my center
The love that holds my becoming

This is not a claim of power
It is a remembrance of unity

To say God is me is to say
I am made of the same source that made the stars
And in that knowing
Everything softens

I no longer worship from afar
I walk in communion
Because the Kingdom lives in me
And always has

And Then Grace Added Everything

I didn’t have to chase
I didn’t have to prove
I didn’t even have to figure it all out

Because once I remembered who I truly was
Grace began to do what force never could

The Kingdom within me started to magnetize what I once thought I had to earn
Support came
Clarity came
Alignment flowed in

Not because I reached for more
Because I had returned to the truth of who I am

That is the promise
Seek first the Kingdom and everything else will be added

When you know that you are that Kingdom
Held
Holy
Whole
The rest no longer feels like a reward
It feels like a natural unfolding
A divine generosity

This is the power of sacred investment
It is not about becoming worthy
It is about remembering you always were
And from that place
Life meets you differently

Blessings ∞