Count Your Blessings — Acknowledge My Progress
- Gogo_Noma
- Dec 4
- 3 min read
Thokozani Badimo Child
September arrived with a softness I didn’t expect — a gentle awakening rather than a loud revelation. And before I had even fully stepped into the month, Spirit was already speaking, but not in the way I imagined.
The theme for this reflection didn’t come to me in prayer, nor through meditation, nor in a dream.
It came through someone who walks closely with me in service — someone whose spirit is sensitive enough to catch messages through sound, through music, through subtle shifts in energy. She heard a song, felt its depth, and said: “This is our next theme.”
And in that moment, Spirit said to me, “I am acknowledging your progress.”
Not just the progress in the work — but the progress in the community, the collective alignment, the spiritual maturity of those walking alongside me.
When someone who serves with me can listen, discern, and declare a theme that Spirit confirms — that is growth. That is blessing. That is evidence of shared alignment.
So as soon as she said it, I received it.
And just like that, for me, September became:
Count Your Blessings — Acknowledge Your Process
A Month of Acknowledgement
Growing up, we were taught the beauty of counting blessings — naming them, celebrating them, witnessing God’s goodness. It’s a foundation I still honour.
But Spirit has matured the understanding for me.
This month, the message was clearer:
Do not only count your blessings.
Acknowledge your process.
Because blessings don’t exist without the journeys that shaped them.
There is no harvest without seed.
There is no seed without soil.
There is no breakthrough without instruction.
There is no becoming without surrender.
A Blessing is Evidence of a Journey
September became a mirror.
Not to show me what I don’t have — but to show me what I have become.
Every blessing around me had a process beneath it:
• My emotional maturity
That didn’t fall from the sky.
It was born from years of unlearning and conscious healing.
• My deep spiritual clarity
That came from prayer, quiet moments, spiritual discipline, and ancestral guidance.
• Healthier relationships and boundaries
These are blessings formed through courage, grief, and intentional rebuilding.
• Peace of mind
A blessing carved by letting go of old stories and trusting my path.
• Alignment in my purpose
A blessing that grew as I kept choosing truth over comfort.
Each blessing is a fruit.
Each fruit has a root.
And each root is a process that deserves to be acknowledged.
God Within — The Creator in Me
Spirit reminded me that the Divine does not only work around me.
The Divine works through me.
This month, I heard clearly:
“Do not only say ‘Look what God has done.’
Also say, ‘Look what I have done with God in me.’”
That revelation shifts everything:
I move from waiting → to participating.
From hoping → to co-creating.
From observing → to embodying.
It is not arrogance; it is spiritual maturity.
It is understanding that blessings appear where effort, faith, discipline, and alignment meet.
The Power of Someone Walking Beside You
The fact that the theme came through someone serving with me is itself a blessing.
Because it means:
• I am not walking alone.
• The people beside me are listening to Spirit.
• We are aligned in purpose.
• Spirit trusts us collectively to receive messages.
• Growth is happening not just in me but through the community.
This is also part of the process to be acknowledged.
A blessing to be counted.
September taught me that blessings are not random gifts — they are evidence of a journey.
And spiritual growth means acknowledging both the blessing and the process.
I honour what Spirit has done.
I honour what my ancestors have guided.
And I honour what I have done with the God in me.
As I close this reflection, I stand in gratitude for:
• the theme that found us
• the spirit-led community around me
• the journey behind each blessing
• the becoming that continues within me
I am not just blessed.
I am the blessing.
And I honour the process that shaped me, that continues to shape us.
I am Gogo_Noma
Lesedi 💫
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