August 2020 Love Letters: Day 14
Hello, my love!
It is officially our two week anniversary of me writing to you daily. Knowing someone somewhere out there is reading this, or might read this someday, is enough to keep me motivated to keep moving forward with these open love letters to YOU. That’s correct, I have written this for you directly, even if we have never met, or we aren’t close, or you’re my best friend. I want YOU to know that someone, somewhere out HERE loves you, believes in you, and is cheering you on in life. YOU GOT THIS.
Y’all already know we are living through some tough times. I like to refer to tough times as character builders. THIS is where you get sanded down, refined, polished, shined up…there’s a reason it takes grit, darlin’. Grit and determination, determination and grit. You are not allowed to give up. Your life has purpose and there is 100% a reason you are HERE, right NOW. YOU WERE LITERALLY MADE FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS. You are brave, strong, and courageous. Yes, even in the mundane, it takes courage: courage to get out of bed, put your feet on the floor, make your coffee; courage to be patient, loving, and kind to those you are surrounded by, courage to overcome the loneliness you may be feeling, courage to not lose your mind entirely. Baby, we know about courage. We gots it, in abundance.
All the good qualities are available in abundance, we just have to continue the refining process. Run this race with endurance. We are marathoners, darling, and though you may feel as though you are suffering right now, you know that you are ALIVE. Pain often serves as a way to make us feel alive, versus just existing. The great heights and depths both have a way of doing that. We spend most of our time here/now in the middle. There are still miracles to be found in the mundane. The fact that you are breathing? Miracle. Blood pumping in your veins? Miracle. You have your senses and wits about you? BOOM, another miracle. If nothing else, you can be grateful for that today.
Today, my love, I am grateful for you and the bond we share that connects us to each other and to all those around us. We ARE all connected, and created by the same Heavenly God that has made all things and called them good. Today, my love, I want you to experience the deep and abiding peace that comes about when you surrender all your worries and fears, and learn to trust and rest instead. If that is something you are wrestling with, bring your focus to your breath and remember YOU ARE COURAGEOUS. That’s our mantra for today to get us through whatever we need.
I am courageous. I am loved. I am leveling up my character.
See you tomorrow, dear heart. I love you for now and always,
L Joy
