Healing in a Whole New Way Than a Doctor

I didn’t always want to be a missionary in Compton, California. I actually wanted to be a doctor when I was a little girl. I wanted to heal people. That’s what I told my mom’s friend when she asked me what do I want to do when I grow up? I said, I want to heal people. I believe then she said, oh, you want to be a doctor as if that’s the next step to healing someone. But little did I know that my journey of healing others, God’s people, was going to take on a whole different view or pattern than becoming a medical doctor. 

I started writing poetry in college after a traumatic time in my life. It was an outlet to heal my pain, along with drugs and alcohol. But it helped, and I have a whole book of poetry written called Jaundiced View that you can read and see this very enlightened poetry that came out of a traumatic situation that ended up in my victory as I was making my way, graduating from college and moving on with my life. 

That’s really where my love story begins, in college, how I fell in love, lost in love, and have been on this long journey to find love again, romantic love anyway, but I found the love of God. And that is really what I want to share, the love of God, and romantic love, and also love for others, for people. I always say, love God, love you, and love people based on Luke 10:27. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul, and all your strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. That’s my premise, that’s my foundation for love again LA. 

Why love again in Los Angeles? This is where God called me. This is where I was looking for a place to live in, for me to go after I graduated college at Tulane University, where I had been living in New Orleans, Louisiana for five years. I was deciding where I wanted to go. I visited San Francisco, California, it was just not my vibe. I went to New York, found a place in Greenwich Village. It was lovely, but New York was a bit for me.

Then there was LA. I had a friend already in Los Angeles, and I decided just to pack all my things and go. I know that this was the will of God in my life now. That this is the place he wants me, and to spread the love of God, the love of humanity, and the love for one another. This is part three of Love Again LA.

Love and peace, Shirah Chante, Relationship Artist

P.S. I have a marriage vision map if you’re interested. It’s some questions to help jog your memory or create new instances of what you want in love.