Ep.22: When Your Heart Knows its Own Bitterness - and Finds Its Joy: Birthday Special

This year’s birthday carried a kind of beauty and healing I never expected. Just three days before turning 33, I lost my grandma — and with her passing, God began to reveal something deep in my heart. For years, my birthdays were wrapped in disappointment. I often gave others the power to determine how special I felt, expecting them to celebrate me the way I celebrated them. And when that didn’t happen, bitterness settled in.

But this year, everything shifted. In those three days of grief and reflection, God spoke three things to me:

1️⃣ I’m allowed to make myself happy — it’s not anyone else’s job to do that for me.

2️⃣ Jesus rose on the third day.

3️⃣ Proverbs 14:10 — “Each heart knows its own bitterness, and no one else can fully share its joy.”

What started as a painful week turned into a resurrection moment — the death of my old self and the beginning of something new. At 33, I see how God used loss, healing, and revelation to bring me into freedom and joy that only He can give.

Join me as I share what it means to let go of bitterness, embrace personal joy, and celebrate the quiet resurrection God can bring in our hearts.

Mahalo for joining me today and for letting me share this space with you. Let’s keep walking in faith and aloha, together.

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