Revealed in the Making Series Finale: Part 4—I Don't Want to Wait for the Tunnel of Light ( what happens when God unlocks you at 50 something and you realize the key was there the whole time)

What happens when God unlocks you at 50-something and you realize the key was there the whole time — and you're both laughing and crying? That's exactly where we're landing today. This is the finale of the Revealed in the Making series, and honestly? It's the one I didn't know I needed until I said it out loud.We're talking about the difference between healing and unlocking. Because some things weren't broken — they were just waiting. We're talking about a prophetic word I held for years that I couldn't decode until I started living it. And we're talking about why you don't have to wait for the end-of-life highlight reel to finally see what God has been doing in you all along."Coming into agreement with what God says about you is not pride. It's obedience."What we get into01The kind of proud that's actually obedienceI say something I've never said in my entire writing life — I am genuinely proud of this book. Not the "I did something great on my own" pride. The "I am proud of the girl God made me to be" kind. There's a difference, and we're going there.02Healing vs. unlocking — and why the word mattersHealing implies something was broken. But some things were never broken — they were just locked, covered over, sitting in the dark. A wound needs to be cleaned and closed. A lock just needs a key. God wasn't only healing me. He was unlocking me.03The prophetic word I held for yearsA woman in a prayer meeting — didn't know me, didn't know my story — said I'd be "one of the most influential journalists of our time." I thought she meant journalism. She didn't. It took years of living it before I understood what it actually meant.04Getting over myself (with a nudge, not a slap)I went into this book season done. Deflated. The quiet kind of deflated that doesn't make noise — it just goes silent. And then God basically said: are you ready yet? Because freedom doesn't release you until you get out of your own way.05Seeing the pattern now, not at the endEverybody talks about seeing it all line up in that tunnel-of-light moment at the end of your life. I don't wanna wait for that. I want to see it on this side of heaven — the stones lining up in real time, while I'm still being made.Amber Weigand-Buckley is an Amazon #1 bestselling and multi-award-winning author, podcaster, and the founding editor and art director of the multi-award-winning Leading Hearts magazine. She's the #shortyellowpencilgirl living in a neurotypical world — navigating life with a beehive brain, a lot of sticky notes, and an unwavering belief that God wired her exactly right.Host of #RandomDevoThoughts — where she unpacks the Jesus heart from the ADHD mind — Amber brings raw, relatable, and often hilarious insight to faith, mental health, and neurodivergent life. She's also co-host of Coffee Chat with Amber & Lisa.Her newly released book, #SisterhoodoftheShortYellowPencils: Mental Health Mayhem, One Sticky Note at a Time, is out now — a humor-packed, gut-punch honest look at her own mental health journey that's equal parts laugh-out-loud and life-changing.Follow her @barefacedgirl and @shortyellowpencilRX for the real, the raw, and the ridiculous.