23 - Jasmine C. Petit

Side note this is the 23rd blog for I am Jasmine C. Petit, also I am in my 23rd year of life. The number 23 is very important to me because it symbolizes a time of great change for me.
Thank you for your support on this journey.

     After I turned 23, I began working on a book, at first I wasn't sure what I would write about. I didn't know any great history stories that I could tell, the only stories I had know were the ones that plagued my life. I was tired of the assumptions, everyone speaking as though they knew me, as if they could bare the cross of my life. They were not my Savior so that could never judge me righteously. 
    The book started as poems, poems turn to blogs, blogs turned to a back and forth poetic telling of my life; followed by a poem to introduce the next story. I was finding clarity and solutions to questions I didn't even know I should have been asking. I stopped looking to my own understanding and asked for help and direction from my family, pastors and teachers. 
   I had every tool I ever needed to succeed and this time, I knew what to do with it; first I would pray. Second I would seek the counsel of my family and teachers, third I would search the scriptures, for an ancestor who was met with a great adversity and gain understanding of how they employed their talents, so that I may do the same and be prosperous. 
  
   I also had to lay to rest all false notations of God's people; the family is the church of the living God and we are all brothers and sisters. So I should seek to do good works why my brother has need but I should never be a slave to my brother. Words, to live and be fed by, I would humble and submit myself before the lord, serve him righteously and work my own lands and harvest my own fields; and let it stand when my brother has need of me. 

    My great work and mission, was to work to provide for myself and my family, to help those when they are in great need, and know that my labors will produce fruit. It took me 23 years, to understand my blessing and calling as a women.