Do you wake up with people on your heart? I do and some days the list is short and others so long it is painful. Maybe as you read this, someone comes to mind, someone who is hurting and you feel so helpless.

I woke up with this on my heart this morning and as I wrote it, I thought how hard it is to watch people hurt when we want to fix things. People are struggling everywhere, we all are, but these don’t make us less than. They only make us each more unique because as hard as they are, they are each our own, and in the end, we are stronger for them. And sometimes, in the healing that can feel so slow, we just need to be reminded….

we are beautiful, worthy, loved,
just the way we were,
just the way we are,
and just the way we will be.

Not sure who needs this, if anyone at all, but may it reach someone who does.

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My Beautiful Butterfly

I hope you understand.
A butterfly is still a butterfly even when it’s wounded,
even when a wing might be torn or imperfect.
It is still as beautiful as it was before the wound,
as the day it was formed,
it just needs time to heal, to learn to fly again.

It’s wing may heal back with a scar,
but we all have scars.
We all have scars.
They blend with our perfect parts to make imperfect perfection.

You beautiful butterfly,
your wings, already so unique,
every marking,
those God gave you and those you drew yourself.
The healed places will make them more you one day,
more you than you’ve ever been before.

Every color you contain is more vibrant than the next,
I’ve never seen anything like the colors you are.
It is as if you created new ones all your own.
Some days they are covered in dust but that will fade away,
they will be bright again and light up the world.

I believe each scar makes you stronger,
more powerful,
more amazing than the day you came to be.
With time.
In time.

I wish I could heal your wings for you,
I wish I could heal my own.
I wish I could take away the process that’s hard,
the time it will take.
But I don’t have that power,
only He does,
and that you have within.

Slowly.
Timely.
Right on time.
I have no doubt it will happen.
You will fly again.
Someone will smile.
Someone will say there you are, my beautiful butterfly.
I knew you were there.
I knew this day would come.
Maybe that someone will be me.
And just maybe it will be you.
And off you’ll fly to light up the world.

xoxo,

JCG

If you are hurting, this is for you. If you hurt for someone, this is for them and you too. Share if you feel led.
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