I Will Rise Again

By Felis Peterson

My name is Felis Noel Peterson, and I am still becoming.

I say this simply because there have been many versions of me, many stages of discovering my gifts, understanding who I am, and recognizing who I am becoming. No matter what the fire has taken from me, I know that I embody the flame. And I rise.

I am a Missouri author and the founder of Destiny Ministry Coaching. My mission is to help people who feel lost find their way back to God and, in doing so, find their place in this world again. I want to help people regain their peace, courage, faith, strength, and belief in themselves. I teach the importance of standing firmly within healthy boundaries and, most of all, learning to love yourself even in the midst of fear.

Who am I?

I am not a minister, and I do not believe I need a title to define my spiritual identity. Throughout my journey, I have come to understand myself as possessing many spiritual gifts. I describe these gifts through my light, my fire, my awareness, my energy, my frequency, my intuition, and my ability to serve as a mirror to others.

Spiritually, I understand myself as a healer, a warrior, an angel, and a star seed. I believe these gifts were placed within me before I entered this earthly life. I walk within this world while knowing that my spiritual identity reaches beyond it. Above every other description, I understand myself as a child of God.

Long before Destiny Ministry Coaching had a name, I had spent more than 20 years studying, encouraging, and coaching people. I have shown people the power I believe God has placed within them and encouraged them to believe in themselves and in their ability to heal.

That philosophy became the foundation of Destiny Ministry Coaching. My purpose is not to convince people that I possess some special ability to fix them. My purpose is to help them recognize the strength, faith, and capacity for healing that already exist within them. When people learn how to participate in their own healing, they can carry that knowledge into their families and communities and eventually help someone else.

I believe love is one of our greatest tools for doing that.

Sometimes we become so focused on telling people what they need to change that we forget to give them the love they need in order to hear us. There is a difference between demanding transformation and reaching someone's heart.

I have learned that genuine love can break through places that anger, yelling, judgment, and force cannot reach. When you approach someone's heart with sincere love, something begins to change. That is what I want my coaching to demonstrate.

I describe myself as a light. My purpose is to shine that light toward others, reach their hearts, and point them toward God. What happens after that belongs to God. The transformation is His work, not mine.

I know what it means to start over.

I know what it feels like to be overlooked, betrayed, abandoned, treated with scorn, isolated, and even to feel as though I had been buried and left for dead.

But I also had a blueprint for rising.

I learned how to dig myself out.

Those experiences became part of how I serve others today. I do not speak about rising because I have never fallen. I speak about rising because I know what the ground feels like.

My first book, Guiding the Lost: A Beacon for the Chosen, has been published and is available on Amazon. My journey continues through The Phoenix Rising series, including The Phoenix Rising: Twin Flame Healing and The Phoenix Rising: Twin Flame Transformation. These books will also be available on Amazon following their publication.

I write for the woman who believes her story is over.

I am living proof that it does not have to be.

The fire was never meant to finish me. It was meant to reveal me.

And so I rise.

If my life says anything to another woman, let it say this: your voice matters.

Your season is not over. It is not too late to rise. You do not have to be perfect before you begin again. You only need to be willing to surrender the ashes and trust that God is not finished with you yet.

I believe part of my purpose is to be a beacon that activates something within others, the courage to remember their strength, reclaim their voice, and believe that they can rise again.

If my rising helps even one woman believe that she can rise, then the fire I walked through was not wasted.

I will continue carrying the flame.

And I will rise again.