Five minutes in I knew I was in trouble. My eyes were watering from the cold, my legs felt like lead, and I couldn’t breathe. All I wanted to do was to stop running and go home. “Candance, take a deep breath and don’t panic,” my friend told me. She could tell I was struggling and offered me advice to help me regain my focus. “Ok…got it…I think,” I responded. I inhaled, taking the cold air into my lungs.  “Just breathe, Candance. Breathe,” I said to myself.

I encouraged my listeners to create their own playlist, which would bring them into the presence of God. I also told my listeners that I would share my playlist with them if they did not have their own. 

oday is your birthday. Not the day you were physically born into this world, but the day that you decide to be renewed. You survived difficult seasons in your life because, somewhere deep inside, a tiny voice (which was the Holy Spirit) kept whispering, “You will make it. God has not abandoned you.” And you believed so much in that voice that you followed it to your freedom. And here you stand, alive.