Creative Writing Contest , May 19th 2021; You are Strong.

For a long time,I have been wondering what makes us sufficient as a race. I have been wondering what makes people heal from terrible mental and physical health issues. Finally I got an idea that grace is responsible for all healing and happiness.This grace according to me, is like a positive healing energy that knows our divine blueprints, such that a new skin grows to replace a burnt skin, or a shaved head grows new beard.Its just so amazing that this grace is available to everyone and all the time, passed on from one generation to another. This grace sees me get so weak, then she makes me so strong and I stand victorious. I'm vulnerable, but strong because of grace. My sufficiency is measured by the magnitude of the air we breathe.

I go to sleep , surrendering myself to the vast embrace of grace. While Lost in the mind, I get trapped in a dream world.sometimes it gets so scary that I can't seem to wake up, but she wakes me up in the morning. At a point, I got trapped in sleep paralysis. Fearful that death had come to take me, I lay down unable move my eyes or my body,yet I could see the walls of my room. I could notice my body on the bed and every thing was normal except that I could not move my body. I lay down on my bed for a while and finally woke up. Later in the afternoon, I felt very tired and decided just to rest on the bed,but felt a great need to sleep. Sleeping at this time felt like I was surrendering myself to something I did not trust. It drew me to it's self, closer and closer till I could not resist. I felt restless and nervous. I really wanted this sleep to replenish my energy,but I became even more scared of it.

I had not prayed before sleeping for a long while, so I decided to pray," ohh darkness, I was once with you when I was still formless. I knew only you, while I was still in my mother's womb. It is because of you that I Know light.Without you,light would not exist. How can I be afraid of you! You come to comfort me through sleep and in death. You take over the earth at night and become the physician in my sleep.you heal my brain and heart. You increase the frequency of the earth and bring me new ideas. How can I be afraid of you! Indeed, I will go to sleep fearlessly and hopefully to rise again.If I don't wake up from my sleep, I trust you to take me into your wide arms. I'm sure to be comforted. I'm. Sure to be loved by you. Let me dream,let me heal.give me new energy and let me rise again to witness the colors of the light." After making this prayer, I slept peacefully and woke up feeling more energized and relaxed. What a prayer! That was just the beginning of a journey of exploration.Now I'm able to explore the power in praying every single day. So far, prayer to me means a form of surrendering a situation to something or someone you trust.

This post is written based on my real life experience and shared in order to encourage others to be able to use their intellect and reasoning, above their traditions and religions as well as subconciously and consciously empower everyone who reads it to be courageous in facing sickness , pain and death , as mere darkness that is not meant to show their weakness,but meant to host the light and co-exist with it. We know wisdom because foolishness exists.we know wealth because poverty exists.we know health because sickness exists.
We battle with foolishness, sickness and poverty all the time. We use every wisdom, wealth and health at our disposal to battle and end up not having any.This is because we either have all or nothing. We are either all or nothing. These different states of minds that we battle for and against wear us down till the body is broken . Are you a Muslim or a christian? We are faced with this same inner war, that materializes into worse conditions...

Through foolishness, through sickness and through poverty, grace is what comes to rescue us. Grace is what works through food and through medicine. I also understand grace to be an energy that vibrates at a higher frequency, more of light rendering darkness powerless.Grace is what makes us mentally and physically strong enough to overpower life crises. I see grace as the womb that carries a child till it is matured enough to face the world. I see grace as the power that goes ahead and prepares a coincidence for me to witness. I see grace as the beauty enhancer, replenishing my energy, growing new cells, helping digest food and transmuting this food to new energy.

If I can give grace other names based on my understanding, I would call her the divine healer, the guardian angel, the divine light...she is our divine birth right, always available. She works sleeplessly and tirelessly . I call her the divine mind.