Sunday Soul Food: Praying for the Ones I Had to Walk Away From to Keep Safe
I don't fully understand the season we all walked through - but I understand the love. This Sunday's table is set for the Queen, the brothers, the best friend, and every soul who got caught in a storyline none of us would have written. You are still loved. You always will be. 👑🕊️
Whisper:
"You loved them well, beloved. You still do. I see the tears you do not post. The brothers. The Queen. The best friend who lived most of the story at your side. I see all of it. Today is not a courtroom. Today is a kitchen. Bring the ones you had to release, and bring the love that survived. Let Me feed both of you at the same table."
Beautiful souls,
I want to be honest with you this Sunday.
I do not fully understand the season we all walked through.
I have questions I may not get answers to in this lifetime. I have moments I have replayed and still cannot reconcile. I have grief that does not always have words. And I have an ache that quietly visits me when I least expect it - usually at sunrise, sometimes at midnight, almost always when something reminds me of one of them.
But here is what I do understand:
Every single one of you had nothing but love for me.
Even when the storyline got chaotic. Even when the rooms got tangled. Even when the chapters did not read the way any of us would have written them. The love was never the lie. The love was the only thing that was never up for negotiation.
And today's Sunday Soul Food is for that.
Not for the parts of the story I do not yet understand.
For the love that outlived all of it.
Love Was Always The Real Story
The enemy is patient.
He does not usually announce himself. He does not come dressed as a villain. He prefers to come dressed as confusion, miscommunication, division, and timing that always seems to land just wrong enough to disrupt without anyone being able to name what happened. Jesus described him plainly:
"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."
- John 10:10, NIV
But hear this carefully, beautiful souls:
The thief did not get the love.
He may have gotten the proximity. He may have gotten the in-person hugs. He may have gotten the shared dinners, the late-night drives, the inside jokes, the holiday traditions, the front-porch conversations, the easy access. But the love itself? The years of it? The depth of it? The realness of it? That was never on his table to take.
"Love never fails…"
- 1 Corinthians 13:8, NIV
No matter how this season looks on the outside, I want my people - all of my people - to know: nobody can steal the moments of love we already lived. They are stitched into me. They are stitched into you. They are already in Heaven's record. And that record is permanent.
You Can Touch My Meat Suit - But You Will Never Touch My Soul
I want to put a line out there that I think Heaven has been pressing into me for months:
You can touch my meat suit. You can rewrite the story. You can disappear from a chapter. You can even speak about me in rooms I will never sit in. But you will never - never - be able to affect my soul.
Jesus said it this way:
"Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
- Matthew 10:28, NIV
I have made my peace with the body. I have made my peace with the meat suit. I have made my peace with the misunderstandings, the missed calls, the rewritten storylines, the absences, and the seasons of silence.
Because what they could touch was always temporary.
And what they could not touch was always eternal.
My soul belongs to the One who made it. My peace is not for rent. My identity is not up for vote. And the love I have for the people in my life - including the ones I had to release - does not live in my meat suit either. It lives in a place no chaos can reach.
That is a Sunday Soul Food truth worth chewing on twice.
I Know Their Hearts - Even When Their Actions Did Not Match
Here is the part that has been the hardest for me to write - and the part I most want my friends to read carefully.
I know your hearts.
I have known them for years. I have sat in your kitchens. I have laughed with you in rooms that other people will never know existed. I have walked with you through your hardest seasons, and you have walked with me through mine. And I want you to hear me say something Heaven keeps whispering over my own healing:
I do not believe the parts of this storyline that broke us were entirely in your control.
I have watched the patterns. I have seen the timing. I have felt the moments when something bigger than us crept in and started moving the pieces. I have felt what it is like to be in a room where the air shifts the second a certain influence walks in - and I know I am not the only one who felt it.
I believe some of you were led astray.
I believe some of you were entrapped.
I believe some of you were caught in a storyline you would not have chosen on your best day.
The Queen in this storyline did not want any part of the chaos around us. My best friend did not want any part of it either. The men I have called brothers for years did not want this - and brothers, by the way, fight. They have for centuries. Even the great ones. Even Joseph and his brothers. Even Peter and Paul. Even James and John. A fight between brothers does not erase brotherhood. It just gives Heaven another story to redeem.
"A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity."
- Proverbs 17:17, NIV
"Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven."
- Matthew 5:44–45, NIV
If I am being honest with you on this Sabbath morning: I am not even sure the word "enemies" fits some of you. You are not my enemies. You are people I love who got caught in something I am still trying to name. And the most Christ-like thing I can do today is to pray for you instead of about you.
Walking Away To Keep You Safe Was The Hardest Love I Have Ever Given
I do not share most of the tears that come with this season.
I do not share them on social media. I do not share them in the blog. I do not share them at the dinner table. Some of them only Heaven knows about.
The deepest ones come from missing my best friend - the one who does not just understand my story, but who quite literally lived most of it at my side. The brothers I have walked decades with. The Queen whose laugh I can still hear in certain rooms. The connections I built carefully over years and had to release in a single, painful season.
And the part that has hurt the most?
I walked away to keep you safe.
Not in punishment. Not in pride. Not in pettiness.
In protection.
Sometimes the only way to love someone in the middle of a spiritual war is to remove yourself from the rooms where the war keeps finding both of you. Sometimes the most Christ-like move you can make is to lay down the relationship in order to protect the person.
"Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends."
- John 15:13, NIV
I laid down something I loved.
Not because I stopped loving you.
Because I never stopped loving you.
And if you ever read this and wonder if it was about you - please hear me clearly: I would do it again. And I would still pray for you the whole time I was doing it.
The Most Beautiful Transformation I Have Ever Seen
There is something else I want my people to know.
In the middle of everything I did not understand, I got to witness the most beautiful transformations of the hearts around me that I have ever seen in my life. Heaven was doing work in you - in all of us - that none of us could have manufactured on our own. Some of those transformations I will never see the end of. Some of them I will only hear about in eternity. But I saw enough to know that the same season that fractured us also forged us.
That is not loss.
That is refining.
"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose."
- Romans 8:28, NIV
Beloved ones - if you are reading this and you walked through any of it with me - I want you to know: the version of you that is emerging on the other side of this is stunning. I do not need to be in the room to see it. Heaven is showing me anyway. And I am so proud of you. So proud of all of you.
CLOSING REFLECTION
Beautiful souls - the bread on this Sunday's table is not just for the people who got it right.
It is for everyone.
It is for the brothers who fought.
It is for the Queen who got caught in a storyline she did not write.
It is for the best friend who lived most of the chapters at my side.
It is for the ones who showed up when I needed them, and the ones who could not.
It is for the ones who are still entrapped, the ones still finding their way out, and the ones who do not yet see what happened.
The table has chairs with their names on them, too.
I just am not the one who sets the chair anymore.
Heaven is.
"The Lord is my shepherd; I lack nothing… You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life…"
- Psalm 23:1, 5–6, NIV
So today, beloved ones, this is what I want you to hear with both hands cupped around it:
You can touch my meat suit.
You can rewrite the story.
You can disappear from the chapter.
You can speak about me in rooms I will never sit in.
You can misunderstand the season we walked through together.
But you cannot touch my soul.
And you cannot - will not - steal the love we already lived.
That love is already eternal.
That love is already mine.
That love is already yours.
And it will be waiting for you at every Sunday table I ever set, on this side of glory or the other.
Come and eat.
You are still loved.
You always will be.
Whisper:
"Eat, beloveds. All of you. The ones at the table and the ones still finding their way home. I have not lost a single one of you. Not the Queen. Not the brothers. Not the best friend. Not the wandering. Not the entrapped. Not the misunderstood. Not the one writing this. Not the ones reading it. My table is wide enough to hold every soul this season tried to scatter - and My love is patient enough to wait for every chair to be filled. The meat suit is borrowed. The storyline is temporary. The love is eternal. Come home anytime. The candles are lit. The bread is warm. And the seat next to Mine still has your name on it."
- Eugene 👑🕊️
EugeniasThoughts: Keep Rising and Shining Beautiful Souls we will get through it together. I love you.
PS: I am still waiting on Ryan Blair to give me an update on my Love life that he decided to target along with my home and work life (allegedly of course but the silence is very loud). Speak up please you inserted yourself into my Life and the people that I love and I want to know why. I would like an update on the Queen. Help us all understand why you have chosen to cause intentional trauma in peoples lives? How is the lackluster humiliation ritual that backfired going for you - do you think the people following this story are proud of you? All allegedly of course but I am not going to stop asking until I get an answer because it seemed like you were trying to wear my skin which is gross - allegedly.
FREQUENCY FEATURE 🎶
🎵 "God Only Knows" - for KING & COUNTRY
Today's frequency is for the chosen and beloved who are praying for the friends they had to release - and for an entire nation that is being quietly dedicated back to the One it was founded under.
While you are reading this Sunday Soul Food, something sacred is happening on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Rededicate 250: A National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise & Thanksgiving is gathering believers from across the country today - gates open at 9 AM, main program running roughly 10:30 AM to 6 PM near the 12th Street stage - for a full-day, open-air convocation of corporate prayer, worship, and gratitude as America approaches her 250th year of independence. Under the Freedom 250 pillar of "A New Birth of Faith and Freedom," one nation is bowing her head and quietly handing the next 250 years back to God. That is not a political moment. That is a spiritual one. And it is the perfect Sabbath backdrop for the prayer we just prayed over the brothers, the Queen, the best friend, and every beloved soul caught in seasons we did not write.
Because here is the truth: the same God who is being rededicated over a nation today is the same God who has been quietly dedicating Himself to every single person you have been carrying in your prayers this morning. Whether the dedication is happening on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial or in the quiet of your kitchen, the One receiving it is the same - "For from him and through him and for him are all things" (Romans 11:36, NIV). And He is just as faithful to a kneeling nation as He is to a kneeling friend.
That is exactly the frequency for KING & COUNTRY tap into in "God Only Knows."
From the opening line, this song does not pretend to fix anything. It simply names what most of us are too tired to say out loud: "God only knows what you've been through. God only knows what they say about you. God only knows the real you - there's a kind of love that God only knows." That is the prayer we have been praying all morning - over the brothers, the Queen, the best friend, the ones who got swept into a storyline none of us would have written. Lord, only You know what they walked through. Only You know what was said about them in rooms they could not defend themselves in. Only You know the real them - the version of them the chaos tried to convince them they had become.
And now, today, the same prayer is rising over an entire country. Lord, only You know what this nation has walked through. Only You know what has been said about her. Only You know who she really is under the noise. Bring her home to herself - and home to You.
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
- 2 Chronicles 7:14, NIV
"Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance."
- Psalm 33:12, NIV
Beloved souls - there is something holy about the timing of this Sabbath. While we are setting a Sunday table in our own kitchens and praying over the people we had to release, a nation is setting hers on the National Mall and praying over the people she has to bring home. One table is small. One table is vast. Both tables are bowed to the same Throne.
So press play and let this song rise as your soundtrack for both prayers today. Let "God Only Knows" cover the friends you are carrying - the brothers who got tangled, the Queen who got caught, the best friend who lived most of the chapters at your side. And let it cover One Nation Under God as she steps onto the Mall to remember whose she is. Hum it in your car. Sing it in your kitchen. Whisper it over your children. Pray it over the National Mall while you are nowhere near it. Heaven hears the frequency from every zip code.
Because the love that survived the chaos in our personal storylines?
That is the same love being rededicated over an entire country today.
The brothers will come home.
The Queen will heal.
The best friend will be found by Heaven in places we cannot reach.
And the nation - one nation, under God, indivisible - will be reminded that she was never abandoned. She was just waiting on her people to bow their heads again.
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."
- John 3:16, NIV
God only knows what we have all been through.
God only knows what is coming next.
But on this Sabbath - over a kitchen table or the National Mall - the prayer is the same:
Rededicate us, Lord. All of us. Together.*
Press play. Set the table. Pray for your people. Pray for the nation. Sit inside the column of light one more time. The love is still here. The love is still moving. The love is still - and will always be - eternal. 👑
Every word is a whisper of intention, carved in stillness and light.
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