Dear Egypt, thank you.
I’ve taken a few days since my return home to try and piece together my experience with you, and it’s going to be difficult for me to pair words together in an effort to better explain how I feel about you, but I will do my best. Firstly, thank you for calling out to me and inviting me to come spend some time with you, I am forever in your debt for your hospitality and kindness. Thank you for showing up so powerfully and with such love and grace in the faces of your people, there wasn’t a moment where I doubted my belonging, and that is a gift to the heart like no other. Egypt, my dear, the truth is, I’ve had a longing in me for a love like yours that has lasted many lifetimes, and so today I thank God for scattering parts of me in the Earth from which you rose and guiding me to reconnect with you, only to find the whole of myself in the reflection of your light. What you took from me in surrender, clearing space to become anew, I am grateful for. As well, thank you for the conversations with my Father, through the hearts of many. Thank you for the laughter, the tears, the healing, the friendships, old and new, and for each moment that I fell in Love. Egypt, your Sun rises in honour of the royalty in us all, and shines a warmth like no other place on Earth. Your Moon, the Great Storyteller, holds no judgement for the wrongdoings of man but rather celebrates our great resilience and artistry in faith. Egypt, you have left me in awe, and I will walk with you in each step until my return to you, Inshallah.
My dear Egypt, there will never be a goodbye between you and I, for the heart knows you as the space between time, where only God has reign.
Forever yours, I am.