YOU’RE GOING TO BE ALRIGHT

You’re going to be alright.

You’re going to find that being “alright” doesn’t always look like laughing or dancing. Oftentimes, it’s that slow trek through the canyons that you learn to travel day by day. It’s a deep knowing (even when you can’t see it) that you are loved, even while you feel this way.

You did not see this year turning out this way, and the plans that seemed steady have fallen out of place, but even here, even now, you have not fallen from grace; this glorious, gritty unmerited favor that shows up in the flickers of Light floating through the half-closed blind: you are seen.

And it is okay to say, “this is hard.” It is okay if you are still grieving what’s changed. It’s okay to have days where you feel great and others where your heart is heavy. You’re allowed to be a whole person. You’re allowed to feel many things.