After everything you’ve been through, the fact that your heart can still love deeply is not something to apologize for. Protect your tenderness. The world didn’t get to take that from you.
Heaven noticed the way you kept believing in people, even after the ones who hurt you convinced you not to.
Your softness is one of the holiest things about you
Jacqueline Whitney
Heaven noticed the way you gave someone the benefit of the doubt when it would have been easier to write them off.
Heaven noticed the way you loved deeply, even after being hurt for loving deeply before.
Heaven noticed the way you stayed open, even when closing off would have protected you from more pain.
Heaven noticed the way you refused to become the version of yourself the world was pressuring you to become.
Heaven noticed the way you held onto your tenderness like it was something worth protecting. Because it is.
Your softness is one of the holiest things about you. It’s one of the reasons God keeps sending people who need to be loved the way only you can love them. Your heart isn’t your weakness. It’s your inheritance. And heaven has been watching you protect it, even when it cost you.
Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.
