Below are the lyrics to Lauren Daigle's song "You Say". Find some time to listen to it if you can. It is my life's anthem. I'm not here to impress and please other imperfect human beings just like me. I am here to fulfill a purpose to help other imperfect beings find their soul and receive affirmation for doing so from the only love that matters to me.  It's okay for you to find your soul too. 

You Say by Lauren Daigle
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I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I'm not enough
Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up
Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low
Remind me once again just who I am because I need to know
Ooh-oh

You say I am loved when I can't feel a thing
You say I am strong when I think I am weak
And you say I am held when I am falling short
And when I don't belong, oh You say I am Yours
And I believe (I)
Oh, I believe (I)
What You say of me (I)
I believe

The only thing that matters now is everything You think of me
In You I find my worth, in You I find my identity
Ooh-oh

You say I am loved when I can't feel a thing
You say I am strong when I think I am weak
And you say I am held when I am falling short
When I don't belong, oh You say I am Yours

And I believe (I)
Oh, I believe (I)
What You say of me (I)
Oh, I believe

Taking all I have, and now I'm laying it at Your feet
You have every failure, God, You have every victory
Ooh-oh

You say I am loved when I can't feel a thing
You say I am strong when I think I am weak
You say I am held when I am falling short
When I don't belong, oh You say I am Yours

And I believe (I)
Oh, I believe (I)
What You say of me (I)
I believe
Oh, I believe (I)
Yes, I believe (I)
What You say of me (I)
I believe

What does it feel like to seek and find your soul? Quietness.

Everything gets quiet.
The voice(s) in your head grows silent.
The urgency to be other than who you are goes quiet.
The roar inside becomes a whisper.
The misunderstandings become peace.

It's not an easy journey to finding your soul. If it was we'd all be there by now. 

There are things that have to happen with you and for you so that you can appreciate your soul when you finally meet. Gratitude is an important phase towards finding your soul. When you can feel gratitude even when you don't want to, you know you are getting closer in your search for your soul. 

The pinnacle of your gratitude is to want the best for other souls. This is crucial. You cannot know your soul and still want to cause unnecessary hurt to others. If you feel jealousy, envy, have a good feeling when someone struggles, or have a bad feeling when someone succeeds, you are soulless. Think about that for a moment.

It is impossible when you have found your soul to want to bring pain into the world. Finding your soul means you are prepared to love all humans for the imperfect beings they are. If you are expecting other than imperfection from other humans you will be disappointed, and you will struggle to find your soul.

Accept, that our species is fraught with a desire to dislike the peace we see in humans who have found their soul. The dislike we feel is actually at ourselves because we so badly want what they have, but can't overcome our unwillingness to let go of the good feeling we get when we want to see them trip up. Work on that. All of our purpose here is to help one another find our soul. You can't do that when you are judging another soul. Instead, work on finding your own soul and allow yourself to become a human that wants others to find theirs too. 

Quietness and peace are yours by simply letting go of your need to please others and to instead concentrate on your need to please your soul. Because in the end, its just you and your soul. Remember that. 

In 2004 when I handwrote what is now "The Sun Neither Rises nor Sets" I gave each topic a title that started with "Life's Holy Rhymes" and then I added the topic. (i.e. Life's Holy Rhyme on God; Life's Holy Rhyme on the Bible etc.). I called them that because they were about life, they were spiritual, and they rhymed. I renamed the topics to be chapters for the book and as an example Chapter 18: Fire & Brimstone started out as Life's Holy Rhyme on Hell. 

These wisdom filled rhymes sat dormant in my closet until 2010 when I transcribed them into Word documents and then back into my closet they went. While on a hiatus from work in September 2022 I was given the next nudge that it was time to publish the rhymes. The title for the book came to me in a dream and I trusted emphatically that it was correct.

As you can see from the table of contents below there are thirty-seven topics that are shared over 283 pages. The style in which the topics are written is what makes the book unique. The book rhymes from chapter one to chapter thirty-seven. 

Here are two samples of the style of writing that are found in the book. 

1. (Excerpt from chapter one which totals 1037 words and 4 pages)
By the age of six I was afraid to do any wrong. I was a good child, but I didn’t know how I belonged.
The foster home I was in was full of abuse, and to them I could do no right and was of no good use.
I felt like a slave with no hope for freedom and I was worked everyday with only more abuses to come.

2. (Excerpt from chapter four which totals 7243 words and 14 pages)
I knew incredibly young that I was destined to do something. God had forewarned me that He had much for me to bring. Never did I imagine that He would use me to write so much. Everything I write is done through my hand and God’s touch. My own soul has been whispering to me my whole life, and the truths I have had to overcome have cut like a knife.
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The wisdom in the book and the way it is written tells me, and should tell you, that it is divinely sent. I have no other explanation as to how it evolved other than to say that I kept the faith from my conversation with God at the age of six to trust Him and I would get to "know what it was all for". 

In 2007 while at a workshop I painted this picture when we were asked to share something that impacted our life. 

This is me at six years old having a conversation with God. I'm outside the church from which I received my first bible at that age. I use the words calmness, peace, presence, warmth, no visual, and voice when trying to describe this experience. 

What I have come to understand is that it was my soul talking to me. We all have a soul. It was given to each of us by God. For you to be able to hear your soul is to hear God. To hear God means you can converse with God. We all have the ability to have conversations with God. 

***Insert whatever word you use for "God" where I use that term. We are not wrong in what we believe ( your word here ) is, because we all believe that God is good and wants the same for all of us.***

As my life evolved after that first conversation I never doubted that God existed. Where I struggled, where we all struggle, is how we are supposed to have a relationship with God. We've been taught that God is way out there somewhere beyond our reach. That is not true. 

God is with you every second of every day. Your soul is God. When you recognize that to be the truth, nothing will stop you from listening to your soul for guidance. Call it intuition, call it sixth sense, call it what you want, but know that it is God giving you guidance when you listen for it. For this to happen you need faith, trust, honesty, sincerity, gratitude, and to be selfless. 

Choosing to take or reject the guidance is up to you. But ask yourself this, how is that working out for you with what you do take or reject? <3

This is me at 36 years of age. 

I look happy, but I wasn't. What you are seeing is what we have to do when we head out the door each day regardless of what is happening in our life. Put on the happy face and make others think that you have it all together. Meanwhile you are struggling in silence with a deep longing to be "okay" with yourself. 

I've come to understand that this longing is for you to find your soul. The loneliness you feel isn't for another imperfect being to be in your life, it is for you to find a depth of yourself that only you can know. It's from that place that your soul beckons you every moment of everyday. 

Yes, we all have a soul. Yes, some will acknowledge that as true. Yes, some will deny that there is such a thing. For me, I believe we each have a soul and I tell you why in my book "The Sun Neither Rises nor Sets". 

Nothing, and I mean nothing, that goes on in everyone's day from moment to moment is by chance. 

How is it possible that the control of one's life is elsewhere? I like to explain it like this. When you play a video game and get to control your outcome, what you are feeling in that moment is the essence of one granule of sand that is needed to make up an entire beach. 

We are the granules of sand on God's beach. Only He knows what role we each must have in order to make a beach exist. The waves are our chances and opportunities given every moment of every day to discover our soul. You win God's video game of life when you discover your soul. 

Your understanding of the video game isn't about how the game was developed, your understanding of the game is that it will automatically give and take from you based on your decisions. That's how God works in your life every moment of every day. 

His power cannot be understood by the human mind. We are not evolved enough to know. It would make us fearful to have access to what it takes for each day to happen. Your role is to find your soul. When you find your soul you will be given a glimpse of divinity which you will never want to lose. It will become important to you to help others find their soul. You will come to understand that doing that is all of our purpose in life. 

Chapter six in my book "The Sun Neither nor Sets" speaks to our pure and impure intentions in life. 

When you knowingly (on purpose) cause someone unrest in their life by your actions or your words spoken your intentions are impure. This means that you will receive in return what you purposefully did to someone else without thought of return.

When you knowingly (on purpose) cause someone peace in their life by your actions or your words spoken your intentions are pure. This means that you will receive in return what you purposefully did to someone else without thought of return. 

Our humanness allows our negative feelings to be hurtful to others.
Our humanness allows our positive feelings to be kind to others. 

We are all imperfect beings seeking "something". It's our mission as a species to help each other find that something. The something we seek is our soul. When you find yours it will be impossible to have impure intentions against another soul. 

Find your soul. You owe it to yourself. 

I always tell my son to "live in the now, because that is all there ever is". It can be hard to follow my own advice at times as I marvel at the perfection of my past and stare ahead at the wonderment of what the future will hold.

But, it is true that we do need to remain focused on the present moment. To rehash in your mind what is "past" and fret or worry about the "future" takes your eyes off your soul's moment by moment mission. 

When I was six years old and heard those words from God to trust him and I'd learn what it was all for, I was given a test in that moment to not let my faith in Him fade. There have been plenty of times over the years that I have balked at His wisdom and received karma for doing so. What I did not do over the years was doubt His existence. Sure I'd ask hard questions like "If there is a God, who made Him?" No human has yet to ever answer that question to my satisfaction. God has though. 

I am an imperfect being there is no doubt about that. I move through my day just like everyone else. Where we may differ is that because I do not doubt God's power I have been blessed with His love. So much so that He gave me words for a book that He has entrusted me to share with everyone. You may think that is presumptuous of me to say, but when you read the book you will understand why I feel confident at age fifty-five that I am fulfilling my life's purpose. 

God wrote the book. I co-authored it with Him. This I know to be true.