I AM
- Durel Williams
- Nov 2, 2025
- 1 min read
Updated: Dec 11, 2025
I am Durel. I have a story to tell. It is written and being written. A tree and a seed.
Everyone has a story. Let me begin to share mine.
The name Durel carries with it a vision of deliverance through troubled waters.
"The water is troubled; deliverance is come". These were the words given to my mother as she thought of how to name me.
There have been many troubled waters. Yet - somehow - I had to learn to sense the stillness where deliverance rests.
In the stillness I learned my heart’s own song as it transformed over time. I watched the complete metamorphosis of my identity as the breakdown of my marriage and subsequent divorce rocked my reality. As I went through the process of reclaiming my last name I had to confront its symbolism; what it meant for my "self". I held my name up to the light, turned it around in my hand and observed the nuances that made me who I am.
In this quest for who I am, all I could see was the I AM. YHWH. I quickly learned that the beginning of knowing who I am requires me to know the I AM.
Did you catch that? This story begins with "I AM".
Hi Durel, I am making my comment, in response to your post: "Thy Kingdom Come."
Your life is a true reality that you have found the " I Am" yet the half has never yet been told.
The journey is not taylored. It is a rough terrain.
It will take true and dedicated resilience, to press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Yet He has promised that " Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you, will perfom it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Press my child.
We are eternally proud of you .
Keep your eyes on the goal.
Remain focused.