Maybe right now, your journey isn’t about love.

Maybe right now, your journey is about being alone.

Maybe this is the season you are being challenged —
to learn how to wake up in the middle of the bed,
to finally find hope in the vacancy, hope in the quiet,
hope in the way you stretch into your life and give
yourself permission to take up space within it. Maybe
right now, you are being shown — that you can take
care of yourself, that you can depend on the person
you have become, that you can be your own home no
matter what comes your way.

Maybe right now, your journey is about redemption.

Maybe this is the season you are being challenged to
make amends with your heart, to stand up for the
vast ways in which it loves, and cares, and believes
in the goodness of vulnerability, and expression, and
being the person who softens even when the world is
not gentle. Maybe right now you are getting a second
chance — to trust in it, and to forgive yourself for giv-
ing it away to those who could not value it; but most
importantly, maybe right now you are being called to
protect it, to find your way back into your tenderness,
to find your way back into your soul.

No, maybe right now your journey isn’t about love.

Maybe right now your journey is about hope. Maybe

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