Xavier’s Reflection: “When My Soul Remembered”
There was a silence inside me I once mistook for emptiness. But now I know—it was God’s way of waiting for me to remember. Not just who I am, but who I’ve always been beneath the noise, the labels, the chains. I remember now that there is more to me than my mistakes or the shadows cast by human judgment. There’s an unshakable truth rising in my bones—I was created for redemption, not ruin. For freedom, not fear. The world tried to convince me otherwise, but the Spirit is louder than my past. I’ve hidden my gentleness, buried my wisdom, and silenced my voice because somewhere I believed survival required invisibility. But God is calling me to live unveiled. To let my story speak, not out of shame, but as a psalm of restoration. I feel the awakening—it’s not loud, but it’s certain. It’s in the way my prayers hold more truth than fear. In the way I feel peace pressing against my ribs even when the situation hasn’t changed. Something sacred is shifting: I’m no longer begging Go...