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The title of this book references the Sweet Potato Pudding, which is a Jamaican dessert. It is divinely delicious, especially when served piping hot with its sweet, sticky caramel top. This has always been a favourite of mine ever since I was a child, and to this day, I still devour it like it’s my first time having it. Whoever’s grandmother invented this deserves accolades and a high five because it’s that good.

Beyond the finished product of a heavenly Sweet Potato Pudding are the varying stages for the final output—from the onset of planting the potatoes, to caring for the crops, to reaping the harvest, to peeling, to grating, to combining all the ingredients, to setting the correct temperature for baking, to baking, to cooling, to serving, to eating.

Metaphorically, Sweet Potato Puddings are just like life, with all the intricate processes that we must go through in order to become who we need to be in finality. Just as each process in creating a Sweet Potato Pudding is necessary, so it is with life. Whatever phases we encounter are like requisite rites of passage, if I may allude to that, for us to be better equipped for other phases of our lives as we progress.

I decided to write this book because so many times, we encounter life’s challenges and we feel as though we are alone, and perhaps “unlucky,” and that we are the only ones experiencing such setbacks. This is far from the truth. We all have our respective challenges; show me a man without a challenge, and I’ll tell you that is a dead man.

Like the sweet potato, as humans, we continuously transcend. Once reaped, sweet potatoes are covered in dirt and have to be washed. Similarly, sometimes we feel like we are covered in mess, but then that mess is brushed off and we can turn that experience into a message. We always have the power to transmute our not so favourable experiences to wonderful ones—sometimes it’s a matter of perspective, hard work, grit, and consistency. It is up to us in the end to choose: Stay stuck, being buried in the ground like a sweet potato, or brush off the dirt and transform into a sumptuous Sweet Potato Pudding. May you always choose the latter.

Life is nicer than any Sweet Potato Pudding. You can always overcome the darts life hurls at you, growing stronger, wiser, more grounded, looking to the sweeter side of life, and then some.

Wishing you light, love, and blessings in abundance!