I had a YouTube channel once upon a time, named “A Journey To Summer.”After the ending of the channel, God prompted me to start this blog, and use the same name. Prior to my YouTube channel being named “A Journey To Summer”, it was named something else that will not be mentioned. It was one of those situations where a temporary person had a hand in something that I knew had the essence of permanence (you live, and you learn). It all transpired late 2018, after coming out of a very low point in my life. I knew a change was needed and I wanted that change to reflect in my channel as well, hence the name change. I put my heart and soul into my YouTube channel, and as my heart and soul began to heal, my channel needed to reflect that healing as well. As I was in the process of rebirthing my channel, I heard God say to me: “A Journey To Summer”. At first, I thought it was corny, and I didn’t get it, not until around April of 2020. I hadn’t realized that up until then, I had been taking a path leading to myself, to who God created me to be. It dawned on me, that the channel name had a symbolic meaning: that I was literally taking a journey to Summer.
The journey is far from over. I pray that the journey never really ends. Learning more of who I am, and the unlearning of who I thought I was, is a peculiar journey, that cannot be manufactured. I started the journey thinking it was going to be a journey that validated the person that I created. I thought the journey that I was taking was more about me walking away from who I truly was, versus walking towards her. I thought who I was at my core, in my unmasked state, was the enemy. It’s funny because the closer I got to God and who he created me to be, the more at peace I felt. Why? Because no one feels comfortable wearing a mask for their entire lives, not even the ones we create ourselves. The person that I created to protect me, wasn’t protecting me at all, but she was attacking me. Every chance she got. She thought I was the enemy, but she was the foreigner in a home God created; the foreign things within us must go, so the things of the spirit can take residence.
Now that you know how this blog was blossomed, welcome! I hope you enjoy the content that will be coming from this blog, and I pray that it serves as a form of spiritual medicine. I want us to grow together, and take the journeys to our own selves, being a support system for one another. Remember that the journey is to be taken with God and that “he will never leave nor forsake us”-Deuteronomy 31:6.
Love,
Summer
A Journey to Summer 