Borrowed from a friend. With God, all things are possible. ????
Please, if you’re struggling.
With anything. Or with everything.
Please, look to those of us who have come before you. Who have survived. When we never thought that we could survive.
Please know that we speak to you not in platitudes. Or to give false hope.
For we have been there.
On the floor. Crying so hard that our insides hurt. & we feared a neighbor might hear.
We tell you these stories of survival not to speak about ourselves. Or for attention.
We tell you these stories because we know.
The pain. The hopelessness.
& the lack of connection.
We were there.
When the thought of surviving another second seemed like an impossibility. Let alone another minute, or day.
We understand.
Because we have lived it.
And survived it. & are actively surviving it.
And because somehow, someway, we have rebuilt. & are actively rebuilding.
My heart will always hurt. As will yours.
But I am here.
Because even when I did not want to give myself another day.
I gave myself another day.
To grieve. To hope. To love.
& to live.
I am asking you not to believe what I say, today.
I’m asking you to give yourself another day, so that one day ~ you might believe what I say.
Life through all of its pain & in a much different way, can be beautiful Again. ??