“…You lead me beside still waters…”

As I’ve been preparing to launch this brand I’ve been in a season of real testing. Testing of my character and testing of my obedience. I know that I know that I know that I’m being led by the Shepherd which is super exciting because of what I feel I’ve been shown vision wise not just for this brand but for me in my personal life. A breakthrough in my purpose feels like it’s been long overdue but at the same time I see that everything in terms of the delay with my career and business ventures seems now to be making sense. It was my hope that I would launch Shepherd and Hemp during last weekend during The Queens platinum Jubilee but now I see that last weekend was more like a dress rehearsal for this weekend and potentially many other weekends to come. It seems that I’m walking an extremely narrow path and I’m realising now more than ever my circle needs to be strong and tight. I also know there’s grace for when I make mistakes, turn in the wrong direction or make the wrong choices. When I think about this section of verse 2… “…you lead me beside still waters…” I picture my beautiful house by the riverside. A house with acres of land and a river running right through it. Meadows of the different variations of cannabis plant and other beautiful and rare plants and flowers. I’m starting to realise that God has gifted me with certain prophetic gifts that before I had no idea were actually gifts before. The whole of yesterday I was fully comatose because of food poisoning. I think I’ve been working so hard this past week that when I ate something questionable the night before last my body literally said “Girl…bye”. it fully checked out and because of that I was forced to get out of work mode and start the process of replying back to people I’ve been needing to respond to on WhatsApp. I honestly still feel a little sick my nose is running and stuffy, my throat is still sore but I‘m also seeing this as an opportunity to put my CBD oil and CBD oil method to the test. Today I’m hoping to get a new fresh batch of lab tested supplier oils to mix and test because although I’ve got my predefined blend of oils, this mix is still open to alterations. I still want and need to do a lot more testing of my product because I want my customers, myself included! To have the best possible product to help them along their path. I’m also reminding myself that launching this brand is first and foremost about helping people and not just about making money which I feel is an issue a lot of health based companies that deal with cannabis are suffering from. The epidemic of serving the “God of money“ who wants to rob people instead of the “God of love” who wants to help people. I also now seem to be getting a lot more support in terms of funding and investment and have a few meetings with business partners to secure today. Basically things are looking good and I’m happy that I’m learning more of what it means to follow The Shepherd beside still waters. My own personal mental health journey is improving and even though health wise I’m a hot mess (honest truth) I still seem to have that inner peace that is represented by these still waters the Bible talks about.