RAW IMAGE.
"Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness"
- Yousuf Karsh
May 29, 2016, I attended my church Greater Traveler's Rest Baptist Church in Decatur, GA. It was so much on my mind, and I just knew coming to the House of the Lord would give me a peace of mind and understanding after I hear a good sermon. However, this wasn't a typical Sunday that I have experienced at the House of Hope. I went to the altar and cried more than I thought I could ever cry in my entire life. It felt like a release of all the demons, bad spirits, worries, and disbeliefs just exited my body by just crying out to God. Powerful, right? But what amazed me, was that even though I walked in to hear a sermon... a sermon was not even given. It's so crazy how without a sermon, God touched me in a way that I thought I could never be touched, and the feeling was one I will never forget while standing at that altar, leaving all my problems behind.
I started off with that to let you know, I'm nowhere near where I want to be. Sure, I've been blessed to tour the United States, travel to Dubai, film a national R&B singer, and be able to survive in Atlanta, when it was almost a time where Augusta was about to be "home" again, but it was not an easy ride. Since I was in Elementary School, I always had this feeling of trying to be "accepted". Trying to get in where I fit in, but still lost in the notion of who I was. And then what happens ? INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, SNAPCHAT, and TWITTER pops up and makes life even more difficult lol . Now it's about the followers, the likes, who likes your picture, being jealous of what the other person has in their pictures, wondering how they got what you see in the picture. I was that person. I stepped out of my own reality, my own image, my own purpose, and was trying to create a reality that I knew in my heart, I could not live up to. I was not myself, and the more and more time went on, I was hating who I was becoming.
Since 2016 started, I've done so much soul searching, so much praying, so much GROWING UP, that I'm now ready to face my real destiny by building my own image for my own purpose that God has for me. So today, I welcome you to my R A W IMAGE. Meaning, no filter, no photoshop, no editing. Just me, in my own natural setting, my own way of life, on the road to my own journey...
May 29, 2016 opened my eyes and brought me back to a better and new life. A Rebirth. Stay tuned with me on this journey for the REAL, R A W, and UNCUT revealing of so many dreams that I will bring to life.