09/04/2022
Always expect something wonderful to happen. I know that it can be hard. I know that sometimes it feels like everything has been going wrong for so long and there is no hope on the horizon, but the truth is, something wonderful beyond your imagination might be right around the corner.
I speak this from experience. Many times in my life I have found myself at the bottom of the pit, covered in darkness, fear, regret, uncertainty, depression and anxiety. In this moments, I have been on the verge of hopelessness the vast gulf of black that would so easily suck you in and destroy you if you let it.
But hope never eluded me entirely. Even there. Even in the darkest.
"Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.'” —Matthew 17:20
That's all it takes, the slightest glimmer of hope; a faith that cannot be extinguished.
I am not speaking in metaphor. I am speaking as someone who had everything taken away; someone who knows what it means to watch everything burn to the ground and to walk away. I am speaking as someone who knows what it means to start all over, to rise from the ashes, and create something more beautiful than I ever could have hoped for; to grow something wonderful, to move a mountain, all from faith as small as a tiny mustard seed.
I am telling you that it can be done. I am living proof. There is no going under here. Expect miracles.
