Devotional – October 31, 2024

“Maybe in another lifetime.”

No.  This is all you get.

So please, just fight for the things that crack light into your life, fight for the things that soften you. Protect the people you love, leave them better than you found them.  

Defend your heart, do whatever it takes to keep it open despite what it has been through.  Forgive, not just others, but yourself, as well.

Slow down — taste, touch, feel, care.  Create the things you want to see in this world, stay as curious as possible.  

Honour your joy, do not shy away from the good that is trying to reach you — do not convice yourself that you are unworthy of it.  Be strong enough to be gentle.  Be brave enough to break.  Be all that you are.  Be all that you are.

And when your time does come, when the stars take back what they have lent to you, when this dance ends — I hope you leave this world with a heart that is worn out and tender all over, with a heart that aches from loving, and feeling, and caring in the best way possible. 

I hope you leave this world knowing that you poured hope into everything you did, that you crashed your soul into each day.  

I hope you leave this world knowing, from the deepest part of who you are, that you connected — that you tried for something while you were here.   (from Beautiful Ramblings)

Peace Be With You. – Paul