I’ve captured many insights and personal revelations over the years, most of which I had no idea were such important stepping stones within the Timeline of my own SOULworks until after the fact. The most pivotal perhaps being the inner timeline required to navigate, write, narrate, and finally surrender to my own life path and HOMECOMING. The events highlighted within my Personal Timeline are perhaps some of the more significant milestone moments that helped shape my entire career as an author and Messenger of Change. Some of these archived posts were included in my books as part of a life lesson or teaching. Some were simply journal entries captured online as I searched for inner clarity and insights along the way. Others are perhaps best described as a ‘My Move’ section while navigating this co-creative chessboard we call life with as much faith, inner strength, and courage as I could humanly muster. Either way, charting the archives to my authentic soul signature has been one hell of a ride.

Today I find myself within another ‘My Move’ section of this divine appointment we call life. Discovering, forgiving, finding peace with, and finally moving forward beyond my individual and our collective past, while still finding the compassion within myself to honor my entire SOULworks has been a very long process. Some days there are aspects of our story we are ready to release. Other times there are aspects we are meant to hold onto with all our heart and soul. And most assuredly there are even days when both versions of our story become so entangled that they eventually collide, reaching a predetermined moment in time while charting the path to new beginnings.

You may be wondering why I would return to highlight a seemingly insignificant chapter within my HOMECOMING anthology while taking the focus away from my biblical entanglement once and for all. Well, as it turns out I promised to. And besides, I have no intention of this transformational teaching getting lost within this generation or any other for that matter.

Grace is an ambiguous yet ambitious term. To become disentangled from the biblical era, sometimes we have to resubmerge ourselves into the original storyline in order to find and reclaim what was once lost before we can be found. Other times we have to dive into old structures and belief systems to remove the blinders before we can even begin to be seen. For myself, I have no doubt that my own mountain of fears and insecurities regarding my life-long journey towards activating, evolving, and mastering my own SOULworks gracefully (or not so gracefully) released the very moment I first and finally believed. And just to be clear, I’m not talking about believing in some age-old, outdated story once told. I’m talking about finding, seeing, and believing in the entire scope and teachings regarding my authentic SOULworks just waiting to be found. In that regard, it is the actual process of inner and outer transformation (both of the personal and global variety) that holds the divine capacity to truly echo our amazing grace.

Thanks be.

Lauren Heistad