In 2021, I was declared legally blind.

In 2022, God told me to walk away from Unapologetic Urban Gear , a profitable business.

Then God said, “Move to Los Angeles, California.”

I didn’t understand it all, but I moved anyway.

Truth is, I really didn’t care how it looked to people. I’d rather obey God than please people , and honestly, I still feel the same way. I wasn’t chasing validation. I was chasing obedience.

Now normally, I would’ve questioned a move like that,  heavily. But I had been spending more consistent time with Him over the last three or four months than I had in the last two decades. This was different. This was definitely God.

OK God,  what are we doing here?

I was feeling lost for a few years. Not like “I failed in business” lost, more like “God, what is happening?” I was trying to understand. What am I doing? Why am I doing it? But you know how God is.. He doesn’t give you the whole story. He just says, “Trust Me.”

So here I was, legally blind, trying to figure it out.

And on top of that, my wife’s health was failing. She couldn’t even walk. That hit hard.

We were in the valley. Automatically. No question about it.

But even there, God kept us.

Provision showed up. Direction showed up. But it came day by day. Moment by moment. It was hard to plan. Hard to dream big. I couldn’t see five steps ahead, but I knew I was still being led.

And even though I didn’t fully understand, I became something new.

Something still being revealed. Something still becoming.

I’m not the same person I was, not even close. And the truth is, I don’t want to be.

Because in the valley…

There’s purpose.

There’s clarity.

There’s provision.

There’s direction.

There’s intimacy.

There’s stillness.

There’s transformation.

I used to dread the valley. Now I embrace it.

No matter how God uses me, no matter where He sends me, no matter how high the mountaintop. 

I’m going back to the valley to sit at His feet.