The Best Day of My Life.

​The Best Day of My Life

Y’all… listen.

This one is about to blow your mind.

Take a walk with me over the past seven days. If you had asked me even yesterday how I was doing, I would have said, “I’m trying”, or “one day at a time”, or one second at a time”. 

I would not have said I’m progressing. That is the part I almost missed.

Last week, I sat in my O&M session, orientation and mobility training, learning how to move through the world differently. What used to be automatic now requires intention. Everything I do now requires patience and attention to details I took for granted as a sighted person. Everything now requires a lot more thought. 

My O&M instructor had me doing an exercise out in public, and that moment changed my life as it was my first time in public alone with the intent of going into a store or shop I was unfamiliar with. My instructor is amazing and I love her… and she set me up, ha! She is pushing me to get out of my comfort zone, realizing that this vision loss is not temporary. This is my life now, and that realization carried weight.

Meanwhile, I have conferences coming up. These are spaces I used to walk into with confidence and familiarity. The thought of navigating large rooms, constant movement, overlapping voices, and unpredictable environments started to create real anxiety. A quiet question kept rising in me: am I ready for this version of my life in those spaces? Am I confident in myself and my steps to even stand still while everything and everyone else moves around me with lightning speed?

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Another Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist also came to see me this week. She has spent hours with me walking through the technical accessible accommodations I need to return to work successfully. She helped me identify the right software, the right tools, and the right technology to function throughout my day. Over the past several months she has been steady, patient, and present in this process. When she told me she did not think I needed her services anymore unless I had questions, something in me cracked. I held it together in the moment, then I went somewhere private and cried. The feeling was unexpected. It felt like I was being released before I felt ready. It felt like losing a layer of support I had just begun to rely on.

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Clarity did not come immediately. It came later, quietly, through repetition. Throughout the past week or so, people kept telling me the same thing. 

They told me I have made real progress. 

They told me I was more independent than I had been a month ago. They told me I was doing better than I thought. I heard it, but I did not fully receive it at first. My mind kept moving past it as if it were just encouragement instead of truth.

This week shifted something.

I walked into a literacy fundraiser and allowed myself to slow down. I did not rush through the space. I did not shrink or overanalyze every movement. I sat. I listened. I took in the room. I allowed myself to be present, and even that felt like a quiet victory. There was a moment where I realized that simply showing up in that space, fully aware and grounded, was evidence of growth.

This was my first event as a published author sharing space with other authors. And the keynote speaker was Margot Lee Shetterly, author of the NY Best Seller , “Hidden Figures”!!! Wow! Just wow! She inspired me in such a way that motivates me even more to dig a littler deeper in my writing  

I almost wanted to rewrite Volume Two, but after reading it again, I’m feeling great about the words already published and it’s almost finished! I can’t wait to share it with the world!

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Then something happened that I will not forget.

Someone approached me without introduction or context. They began to speak, and every word felt intentional. Their words carried validation, encouragement, respect, and affirmation. Nothing felt surface-level. Everything felt specific, timely, and aligned with what I had been processing all week. They spoke to my strength, to my journey, and to something in me that I had been questioning. Their presence felt like confirmation in human form.

The noise in my mind quieted.

A truth settled in me that I had almost overlooked all week. I am further than I was a month ago. That realization did not come with fireworks. It came with stillness and certainty. This time, I receive it.

Everything aligned in that moment. Life did not suddenly become easy, but it became clear. Growth was happening, even when I did not recognize it. Progress was unfolding, even when I felt uncertain.

Today is the best day of my life.

This is not because everything is perfect or complete. This is because I am present in it. I am growing in it. I am becoming in it. This moment holds value simply because I am here to experience it.

All I have is right now. All we have is right now. Today and this moment are not placeholders for something better. They are the life we are living in real time.

God is not bound by time. His timing is not delayed or rushed. 

He is on time, right now, in this moment, moving, confirming, and covering in ways that cannot be ignored.

So here’s what I’m holding onto.

Growth does not always feel loud. 

Progress does not always announce itself. Sometimes it shows up in quiet moments… in steady steps… in the ability to sit still in a room that once would have overwhelmed you.

This week stretched me. 

It challenged me. 

It forced me to confront fear, frustration, and uncertainty. 

Somewhere in the middle of all of that, something shifted. I began to see what others had been telling me all along.

I am further than I was a month ago.

That truth finally settled in me tonight. Not as encouragement. As evidence.

God used every part of this week. The O&M sessions. The fear. The tears. The release. The confirmation. Every single piece was working together to bring me to this moment of clarity.

And then, right on time, He sent someone to remind me.

Not by accident. 

Not randomly. 

Intentionally.

So today is the best day of my life.

Everything is not finished. My journey is over.
This is the best day of my life because I can see it. I can feel it. I can receive it.

All I have is right now.

And right now… I am walking in it.