"One day you will look back on this season of your life at awe of the things you made it through. You will look back with gratitude because you will realize you were stronger than you thought you were. Even though in the moment, you thought you were moving at an impossibly slow pace, you will find that all by grace, you were able to carry on, anyway. Your story was still being written, and the valleys did not keep you from the rest of the journey that awaited you.
So on those days where you feel like your progress is slow, and you feel like you are stuck where you were last year, slow down and count the long nights that led you here. Count the difficult conversations you worked through. Count the little things that no longer bother you. This is progress. Strength. This is how you overcame. Even when there are still tears in your eyes. Even when you still have a heavy mind.
The hurt you experienced that was out of your control does not have the power to keep you from being whole. Trust that you are still worthy of love. Trust that love is greater than fear.
Working through the pain of having been hurt is anything but easy, but day by day, it becomes more and more possible. Day by day, as the autumn leaves fall off the trees and you are forced to face the winter, you can also start to see that a little more sun is pouring the branches now.
People change,
seasons change,
and your perspective changes, too.
You start to see where the Light gets in.
You start to see how to make it through."
- Morgan Harper Nichols
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