Today was my last day at my first contracting assignment.

It definitely was an experience. While I didn’t learn as much as I would have liked to or as I think I should have as far as the organization goes, I definitely got some “extracurricular” where my personal growth is concerned.

Remember my posts about “Reflected Gratitude: Mirror, Mirror” and how God uses people, places and situations to reflect our own issues back to us so that we can truly see them and work them out?

Think about staring into a mirror of “unpretties” for seven straight months. LOL

Don’t get me wrong - I saw a lot of who I used to be (the ‘not-so-pretty-me’) in other people. I’m grateful for what I learned from that “me” but evenmoreso, I’m grateful that I’m no longer THAT ‘me’.

Without going into a lot of detail, I will say that while it wasn’t always easy, I know I am (and will be) better off for it in the long run. And so, at the end of this day, I packed my “lessons learned” along with my stash of tea and honey, checked for places where I left indelible fingerprints - indelible soulprints - offered up a prayer of thanksgiving…and hit play on this Lauryn Hill track.

Grateful for it all,
*~* MsJayy *~*