To All of You Healing - From the Author

To all of you who are healing—I know there are days when you feel on top of the world. And then there are days when it hurts to feel anything at all.

Some days you feel strong and optimistic. Other days your heart feels heavy with memories you weren't prepared to carry. Maybe you’re holding onto pain caused by a family member, a friend, or someone you once loved deeply. No matter how painful, don't allow your experiences to harden your heart. Don't allow it to steal your joy. As this year comes to a close, I want you to sit with one question:

Do you want to carry this weight into 2026?

Because if you’re ready to receive the abundant life waiting for you—if you’re ready to receive everything God has for you—you can’t keep holding onto what belongs to the past.

I know letting go is not simple. The memories replay. The moments you forgave, hoping things would change, only to be hurt again. The one betrayal that shifted something in you forever. Whatever you experienced, hear this gently: the way someone treated you was never a measure of your worth. People hurt others from the places in themselves that remain unhealed.

I am far from perfect. Just as I have been wounded, I have wounded others. We all move through life wrapped up in our own thoughts, our own survival, rarely pausing long enough to see the impact we leave behind. That truth humbles me.

So this is my invitation to you—soft, but honest: release it.

If you have the chance to make things right with someone, take it. Not to ease your conscience or free yourself, but because doing the right thing matters, no matter the outcome. Do it with humility. Do it with grace. We are all learning as we go.

And if you don’t have that opportunity, then promise yourself something else: to grow from it. To love better. To move forward without dragging the weight of yesterday behind you.

This past year may have challenged you in ways you never expected. A year of rebuilding, of becoming, of plans unraveling and lessons forming quietly in the background. Now, it’s time to close that chapter. Not with bitterness, but with gratitude for how much stronger you are than you once were.

And when life feels heavy again—as it inevitably will—let it remind you of this: every time you chose to let go of what broke you, life made room to give you something better.

From the bottom of my heart, may this season meet you with peace, and may the year ahead unfold in ways that feel gentle, abundant, and true to who you are becoming.