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the other side.

the light within you will illuminate the world around you. you’ll uncover beauty in the grotesque and flaws beneath the façade. the lack you see will meet the lack you feel so it may be released. the fear you can smell will meet the fear lodged inside you so it may be integrated as courage. we see what we know and we see what we are. pain comes up to burn off; it’s just weakness trying to leave.

slowly but surely, faith forms the invisible path that walks you to what’s yours. every time you allow yourself to receive experiences, without grasping or attaching to them, you step into the version of yourself that can choose the unseen over the seen. and why would we want to do that? why would the invisible be more valuable than what’s visible? what’s wrong with the bird in hand? nothing wrong. just know that faith is your vessel for light and it grows in size and strength every time you choose certainty in your vision over physical sight.

faith is what expands you to hold more. doubt is what will keep you small. “what if this is already the best i can get?” keeps you from receiving everything. today’s projections are a natural limitation on the future. faith is your integrity. it codes a tomorrow with more than you could have imagined yesterday. not as a vehicle for dissatisfaction, but as the only way you would ever learn to trust and receive all that is truly meant for you—before it arrives.

the dark of the woods has an exit. the years in the desert will end. it’s your own faith, your own light, that will see you out. you will no longer romanticize the dark after you make it out of the woods alive. you will no longer romanticize your own thirst after you’ve crossed the desert to the other side.