The end of the work week has reached its height amongst untouched resolutions, innocent ignorance’s, and all in search of the light within the dark of our weekend displays. Our teacher patiently waits for us to slow down, and in the silence, we are spoken to by our advocate who greets us with a whisper that cascades off the tongue and says hello I am integrity. Integrity invites us to have a relationship so that we may free ourselves. Potential rests on the road less traveled.

We are born with integrity but have fallen from grace and our friend integrity influences us through adversity and self-reflection to come back home to ourselves, so that the stars may align once more. There is always a helping hand to rescue the heart that cries out. However, in order to understand what is to come next has a price tag with it. There is a voice other than the one who we associate with as ourself, that vibrates with a soundness that listens and sends us subtle messages. To ignore this investigation has dire consequences. Turning our back on ourselves sends a message to every cell in our body that conflicts against the nature of what humans are. Integrity is everything because when we are not in integrity we are in separation and division, and completeness of our potential can no longer pursue its destination.

For the ears and hearts that are open the rest of this conversation will speak to those who need its message. At the gate we meet our unadulterated selves as adversity guides us to paradise through self-reliance. With the compilation of titles and labels manipulating our modern society, the arrangements of identities alchemically creates separation, division, and confusion in our communities. The first step in our divine journey is honesty. This involves an unification of our past, present, and future. Building an unbreakable bond and relationship with integrity is key to unlocking our powers and legacy.

When the lies leave our mouth, or we choose to not listen to the voice that guides us to truth, the structure of our DNA begins to lose integrity, resulting in a lesser version of ourselves and ultimately our demise and destruction if not given attention to. Integrity is no judge of persons and waits patiently in life or in death to have its conversation with us. With great compassion and understanding you are being offered an opportunity to free your soul from the enduring intentional suffering resulting from external fallacies. Integrity is kind, difficult, painful, and a gift for whom ever is brave enough for its reward.

“I must not Fear.

Fear is the mind killer.

Fear is the little-death that

Brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear.

I will permit it to pass over me

And through me.

And when it has gone past

I will turn the inner eye

To see its path.

Where the fear has gone

There will be nothing.

Only I will remain.”

— Frank Herbert, “Dune”

Trust yourself and the community that is being built with these conversations. The conversation is the place where one lives and dwells, and hand-in-hand integrity will walk with you into your freedom. With each new day what will you choose as the sun rises with eyes open and feet on the ground? Will you hear the voice of integrity or turn the cheek?

Letroy Woods can be reached at Letroywoods@gmail.com.