One year ago, on September 7, 2025, a story that had begun when I was an infant finally came together. It involved Archangel Michael, Yeshua, Lucifer, a vow I had made before I could consciously remember it, and what I came to understand that day as the redemption of Lucifer.
I have never shared the complete infant vow story publicly before, but on the first anniversary, I feel it is time.
Years ago, Yeshua and Archangel Michael showed me an incident that had occurred when I was a baby. I saw a beautiful angel standing over my crib until Michael suddenly swooped in, and I witnessed what I understood to be my first battle in this lifetime between Michael and Lucifer.
When I asked what had happened, I was told that Lucifer had come to read what I was up to in this lifetime, but Michael arrived too quickly for him to do so. That was the explanation I received at the time, and I accepted it. There was no reason for me to think much more about it.
I wouldn't learn the rest of the story for approximately ten years.
What I Learned About That Night
Several weeks before September 7, 2025, Michael told me something more about what had happened at my crib. He said Lucifer also tried to snuff me out and, had he succeeded, it would have appeared that I had died of SIDS.
On September 7, I felt inspired to reach out to Yeshua. During our conversation, I brought up what Michael had told me, and Yeshua confirmed it.
From there, the story began unfolding in far greater detail, including something I had never consciously remembered: a vow connected to Lucifer that I had made as an infant.
That vow explained why the encounter at my crib had been so significant and connected it to the purpose I had come here to fulfill.
The Infant Vow
As Yeshua explained the vow and its consequences, he showed me how different my life would have been had I not made it. Seeing what I had sacrificed brought me to tears because there had been a significant personal cost associated with fulfilling that purpose.
I wasn't questioning whether the vow was real or wondering about all the different directions my life might have taken. I was simply feeling the loss of what I had given up.
Then I asked what mattered: "Wasn't that the reason I was created? Wasn't that my purpose?"
Yeshua said yes, so I decided to get over it. If this was why I had been created, if it was my purpose, and if we had successfully accomplished what I had come here to do, then crying over what I had personally lost didn't make sense to me anymore because I had done the right thing.
The personal loss was real, but so was the fulfillment of the purpose.
What Happened on September 7, 2025
I spent most of that Sunday speaking with Yeshua, Archangel Michael, and God as one piece of information after another was revealed to me.
There was an enormous amount to absorb. Events I had experienced over many years were explained in greater detail, and the context surrounding the vow, Lucifer, my purpose, and what had occurred throughout this larger story was filled in.
That day, I was also released from the vow or contract I had carried.
Most significantly, I witnessed what I understood to be Lucifer's redemption.
The experience was extraordinary, but its message was about God's love. I came to understand that Lucifer's redemption was intended, in part, to demonstrate God's love for all His children.
That has particular significance because so many people have been taught to fear God. They have been given images of a punishing God who may condemn them if they fail to follow certain rules, make mistakes, or fall short of what they were taught was required of them.
People can carry tremendous guilt because of things they have done and sometimes believe they have gone too far to be forgiven.
The redemption of Lucifer presents a very different message.
If Lucifer can be redeemed, who is beyond God's love?
For me, that was one of the most profound aspects of what happened.
Redemption Does Not Mean Darkness Never Existed
My work throughout this lifetime has involved dealing directly with darkness, so this experience did not suddenly cause me to deny darkness or reinterpret everything as light.
Darkness exists, and I believe discernment remains essential.
Throughout my spiritual healing work, I have encountered influences and experiences that I understood to be dark, and acknowledging their existence has always been part of addressing them effectively. Pretending darkness does not exist has never made sense to me.
What happened on September 7 added another truth to that understanding: something that has existed in darkness need not remain there forever.
Redemption does not require pretending the past didn't happen. It means that the past does not necessarily determine what is possible next.
Why I Am Sharing This Now
I didn't share the infant vow story publicly when this happened last year. There was an enormous amount of information received that day, and this was a very personal part of a much larger spiritual story.
Now, on the first anniversary, it feels appropriate to share what happened and how something shown to me years earlier at my crib ultimately connected to events I could never have understood at the time.
There is also a larger reason for telling it. Many people are carrying shame, guilt, regret, or fear about their own relationship with God. Some wonder whether they have done something unforgivable. Others have been afraid of God for most of their lives because of what they were taught about punishment, judgment, hell, or what happens when we make mistakes.
The message I took from September 7 could hardly be more different. God loves His children. Redemption, forgiveness, and returning to God are possible.
If the redemption I witnessed could extend to Lucifer, perhaps we can stop believing that our own mistakes have somehow placed us outside the reach of God's love.
The White Paper
Because so much information came through that day, I asked for a succinct version of what had been revealed to be given to me in a White Paper format.
That White Paper provides more details on the redemption of Lucifer for anyone who feels called to read further.
Read the White Paper: The Redemption of Lucifer
White Paper-Redemption of Lucifer
I recognize that this story may challenge some people's beliefs, and I am not sharing it to tell anyone what they are required to believe. I am sharing an experience from my own spiritual journey, what was communicated to me, and what I witnessed.
For me, what began at a crib many decades ago ultimately became a story about purpose, sacrifice, completion, redemption, and the extraordinary love of God.
On September 7, 2025, I was finally given the rest of the story, and now I am ready to begin telling it. This tells somewhat of the beginning and the end, and at some point I will reveal what happened during the decades in between.
Frequently Asked Questions
How could an infant decide to redeem Lucifer?
When I speak about making that commitment as an infant, I am not suggesting that my infant mind understood Lucifer, redemption, or the magnitude of what I was agreeing to. There is a difference between the awareness of the human personality and the awareness of the higher self.
An infant has not yet accumulated the conditioning, beliefs, fears, expectations, and intellectual filters that develop as we grow. From my perspective, we can still be profoundly open and connected to our higher self and the spiritual reality from which we came.
My higher self already knew Lucifer. That relationship did not begin with my birth. My understanding is that my higher self knew him from before his fall and knew that helping with his eventual redemption was part of my calling before I entered this lifetime.
Therefore, what occurred when I was an infant was not baby Joy intellectually analyzing Lucifer and deciding that he needed to be redeemed. It was the expression of something my higher self already knew and had come into this lifetime prepared to fulfill. I would spend decades discovering what that commitment meant and eventually participating consciously in its fulfillment.
What do you mean when you say Lucifer was redeemed?
When I use the word redemption, I mean returning to God and the light after having turned away from them. Redemption does not mean pretending nothing happened, erasing the past, eliminating accountability, or declaring harmful choices acceptable.
In my experience, Lucifer's redemption involved choice. He had to be willing to relinquish what had separated him from God and choose differently. The spiritual work surrounding that return also involved forgiveness, healing, reconciliation, and clearing the consequences of what had occurred.
Redemption, as I understand it, is not absolution without transformation. It is the possibility of returning after separation and choosing another way.
What is the difference between forgiveness and redemption?
Forgiveness and redemption are related, but they are not the same thing. Forgiveness is the release of judgment, resentment, anger, blame, or the need to punish someone for what has occurred. It can happen whether or not the other person changes, apologizes, or even recognizes the harm they caused.
Redemption involves transformation. In my understanding, it requires a willingness to turn away from what caused the separation and choose a different path. In Lucifer's case, forgiveness could be extended to him, but redemption required his participation. He had to choose to return to God and the light.
Neither forgiveness nor redemption means harmful actions suddenly become acceptable or their consequences disappear. Healing and clearing may still be necessary. What changes is the possibility of moving beyond what happened rather than remaining eternally bound to it.
If we believe in free will, we must allow for the possibility that someone can use that same free will to make a different choice. If we believe in unconditional love, we may eventually have to ask whether anyone is truly beyond the possibility of returning to it.
Does redeeming Lucifer mean that what he did was acceptable?
No. Forgiveness does not require denying harm, and redemption does not rewrite history.
One of the profound lessons this experience taught me is that we can acknowledge wrongdoing without believing someone must remain eternally defined by it. Accountability and redemption can coexist.
This raises a question that extends far beyond Lucifer: Are any of us forever defined by the worst thing we have ever done, or can genuine transformation change what comes next?
For me, redemption demonstrates that acknowledging what happened and allowing the possibility of transformation are not contradictory. Both can be true.
Did Lucifer have free will in his redemption?
Yes. This is essential to understanding what I mean by redemption. I could participate in healing, clearing, forgiveness, reconciliation, and whatever spiritual work I was guided to do, but I could not make Lucifer choose God.
He had to make that choice himself.
To me, this is what makes redemption meaningful. A return to God cannot truly be a return if it is forced. Free will allowed the separation, and free will also had to allow the possibility of choosing differently.
Why would God allow Lucifer to return after everything attributed to him?
My understanding of God has increasingly become centered on love, restoration, choice, and return rather than permanent condemnation.
If God's love is truly unconditional, then redemption cannot be reserved only for those whose mistakes we find easy to forgive. The greater test of unconditional love may be whether it remains available even after extraordinary separation.
That does not eliminate accountability. Choices have consequences, and those consequences may require healing. What it means to me is that accountability can ultimately serve transformation rather than eternal rejection.
If Lucifer was redeemed, why didn't all darkness immediately disappear?
Because redeeming a being and healing everything that resulted from previous choices are not necessarily the same thing.
My spiritual work has shown me that consequences can continue through beliefs, energetic patterns, fear, guilt, resentment, conditioning, ancestral influences, agreements, attachments, and human choices long after the circumstances that originally created them have changed.
We can see a version of this in ordinary life. Someone may genuinely change, yet the damage from previous choices may still need to be repaired. Relationships may need healing, trust may need rebuilding, and consequences may still need to be addressed.
I understand Lucifer's redemption similarly. His return did not automatically erase everything that had already been set in motion. There was still healing and clearing to be done.
Why would you want to redeem someone you considered an enemy?
Because redemption ultimately is not about taking sides. It is about ending separation.
For many years, I understood Lucifer as an adversarial presence whose choices had caused enormous spiritual consequences. Yet the deeper my work became, the more I was confronted with forgiveness, healing, and restoration rather than simply defeating an enemy.
That became one of the unexpected lessons of this experience. Sometimes healing what has been divided can accomplish what fighting the division forever cannot.
Perhaps the greater victory over darkness is not merely defeating it, but transforming what can be transformed and restoring what can return to the light.
Are you asking readers to believe your story about Lucifer?
No. I am sharing what I experienced and how I came to understand it.
Some people will interpret these experiences literally. Others may understand Lucifer symbolically, archetypally, energetically, psychologically, or through the teachings of their own spiritual or religious traditions.
You do not have to adopt my entire spiritual framework to consider the larger questions this story raises. What does forgiveness really require? Is redemption possible after extraordinary wrongdoing? Can someone make a different choice after having caused harm? Does unconditional love have limits? Can accountability and forgiveness coexist?
Those questions belong to all of us, regardless of what we believe about Lucifer.
My purpose in sharing this story is not to tell anyone what they must believe. It is to share an experience that profoundly changed my understanding of darkness, forgiveness, free will, redemption, and the possibility of returning to God.
