You are not standing in the aftermath of a missed life. You are standing in the middle of one that is still unfolding.

You haven’t missed your chance.

You’re not too late. You’re not too broken. You haven’t used up your chances.

– Jacqueline Whitney

The years that passed, the doors that closed, the timeline that didn’t go the way you planned none of that disqualified you. None of it ran the clock out.

None of it means what you’ve been afraid it means.

What’s meant for you doesn’t get reassigned because you took too long. It doesn’t expire because you spent years healing instead of arriving. It doesn’t disappear because you took the long way around.

You’re not too late. You’re not too broken. You haven’t used up your chances.

You’re right on time.

And what’s coming still has your name on it.

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