My love,
You needed someone else's light for a while. Sometimes we all do. A warmth to lean into when the world feels uncertain, a light that reflects and magnifies your own, like James Baldwin wrote. But now, the clouds have parted. And your own light is shining through.
It’s nourishing the seeds you’ve been planting. It’s reminding you that the strength, the joy, the clarity—it was always within you, waiting for you to look up and notice.
Every time you show up, present in the moment, without censoring, without escaping into fantasy or fear, your light shines within you. It pours out of you. It warms the spaces you enter. It touches the people around you.
This is your story to live. Not to imagine, not to wait for, not to write in your head. To live. And the reality of your life right now? Maybe it’s not yet all that it will be, but it is already more grounded, more authentic, more hopeful than it was not long ago.
You are connecting with the people who show up. You are sharing your truth and witnessing it met with kindness and courage. You are inspiring others just by choosing to live with presence, love, and intention.
This isn’t about perfection. It’s about choosing. And you are choosing again and again: joy, love, presence, gratitude. You're showing your child how to live with courage. You're reminding yourself that you get to choose how you show up. That even the hard days are a part of something beautiful being built moment by moment, one choice after another.
Let the tears come when they do. Feel them stream down your face, because every tear is evidence that you know how to love with your whole heart. And you will love again—more fully, more fiercely, and with someone who meets you with certainty and joy.
You are doing great. Keep choosing now. Keep choosing you. Keep choosing love that is grounded, reciprocal, and real.
With you, always.
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