When hope is not seen, it can be hard to know it’s there; but where there’s a will, there’s a way. You don’t have to know for it to be the case. Clamour onto the smallness inside that you can’t yet hear, let it speak, for the smallness will lead you to great heights eventually.
Doubt can be hard, but doubt cannot crush hope; hope is simultaneous. What feels hard can lead you to great heights. What is hard can lead you down some more, but with even a mustard seed of faith, you may not yet be able to see.
You will be okay in time, I can tell. You deserve so much of the good golden the world has to offer, the golden nuggets of hope, maybe the sun, that I know. Whatever could bring you joy, whatever can bring you joy, you might not yet, be able to tell.
Within time, this will change, that I know. Within time you will be filled with a sense of peace and joy, the greatest you’ve ever felt. For you cannot appreciate these great things without the journey and challenges it took to get to them. The journey isn’t easy but, you will be a much happier version of yourself now that you know. You are so much more brilliant than you knew back then, for back then you didn’t see hope, but now you’ll find it to be so.
-Jess
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