I will take your hand because you are going to be okay.
Whatever you do, do not forget that there are songs still left to sing. There are joyful moments coming around the corner that will take your breath away. This, my friend, feels like everything. It feels all consuming and that hope won’t ever come, but it’s not true…
The sun will come up.
You will laugh again. You will laugh so hard that your stomach aches and tears spill out. I promise. Things will be funny again.
You will have moments again when you hold your kids and your heart breaks into a million pieces, because your love is fuller and more overwhelming than you ever knew it could be.
Those are the moments that it is worth hanging on for. They are the moments that are worth more than a thousand years of everything.
Someday, you will be past this and you will look back and thank God that you’re on this side of the storm, and then you will thank yourself because it turns out you are stronger than you knew.
Joy is coming. It can’t resist you. You can’t resist it. Even when everything is so dark and dingy and hopeless, hang on, because it will come.
For now, when you can’t hope, I will hope for you.
When you can’t see, I will see for you.
And one day soon you will feel the sun again on your own.
Love,
Your Friend
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This post originally appeared at The WONDEROAK blog.
