One day, you’ll understand why this season had to happen exactly the way it did.

Angel 1: Does she know how different things will feel a year from now?

Angel 2: She has no idea. She’s measuring her future by how heavy the present feels.

Some she stopped praying for because she received something better instead.

– Jacqueline Whitney

Angel 1: If she could see what we see, she’d stop losing sleep tonight.

Angel 2: Immediately. The weight she’s been carrying? Most of it is gone. The situation she keeps replaying? Resolved. The people she’s been grieving? She understands why they left.

Angel 1: And the things she’s been praying for?

Angel 2: Some have arrived. Some are arriving. Some she stopped praying for because she received something better instead.

Angel 1: How does she feel looking back at this season?

Angel 2: Grateful. That’s what would surprise her most right now. Not just relieved. Genuinely grateful. For what this season taught her. For what it cleared out. For what it made room for.

Angel 1: She can’t see that from where she is.

Angel 2: No. But a year from now, she’ll look back at this exact moment and realize this was the turning point. She just couldn’t feel the shift yet.

Angel 1: We should tell her.

Angel 2: God says let her trust without seeing. So we stay close. We hold the hope for her until she can hold it herself again.

Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.