Hurting Hearts Welcome

I want to begin by saying I appreciate you. Thank you for reading my heart and taking time for yourself. Thank you for trusting me enough to allow my thoughts in your head space, I promise to always do my best once there.

Our community has experienced a lot of unexplainable loss lately. Loss of mentors, friends, brothers, sisters, and leaders. People that made our lives brighter and hearts lighter. People that made this world easier and happier.

I wish I could explain away the heartbreak and help you understand why things like this happen, but I can’t. I have zero answers, like all of you.

What I can do is foster thought. Thought about how we treat those we love. Thought about how we live our lives.

People tell us to take these moments and turn them into lessons, well that’s easier said then done. When we are broken, lessons aren’t our concern. Healing is. So I am going to write this to try and offer restoration ahead of teaching. I write this to bring change above confusion.

 I want to begin with one question: Do you truly treasure the people around you? 

As humans, we often think of ourselves as invincible. We believe that tomorrow is pretty much promised and that people will always be here. Unfortunately, life is unfair. I am guilty of this. I’ll put off treasuring someone or appreciating someone until it’s more convenient for me. I don’t always say “I love you” or “thank you for being you” when I could or should. I allow the messy and hectic earth to take up space and moments in my head that could be spent simply loving someone that deserves it. We never think it will happen to us. Our friends, our family, our hearts. And we especially don’t think it will happen to the most gracious souls we know. I am sorry for your hurting. My heart is breaking for yours. 

I challenge you, right now, in this moment to give out some love. Send a text, make a phone call, plan a date, wrap someone up in a hug. Ego aside, issues behind...love ahead. Let us learn that feelings deserve words and people should be loved by you. The world needs more gratitude and less anger. Families need more understanding and less fighting. Friends need more laughs and less drama. Celebrate people now, right now. This moment is all we have.

A final thought: how are you living your life?

Today is all you have. People need you, and you need people. God made your heart and soul for this time, for this season, for your community. Love without expectation, cherish people for who they are, live like there is no tomorrow.

I love you all so much. I know so many of you are battling with heartbreak and loss in this moment. I am praying for you, truly praying for peace, understanding, and comfort. So many of you are doing such an incredible job loving the people in your life, and thank you to those who love me so well.

I am here if you ever need me. A shoulder to cry in, an ear to listen, a heart to hold yours.

I pray that love crushes our aches and pains and that freedom surpasses our devastation.

Our God is good.

xo