@rashida I love what you said about healing. Physically, things are still day by day, but spiritually, your words helped me breathe a little deeper. That line about God’s peace that is beyond understanding is exactly what I’m asking for, and somehow I can feel it a bit more because you prayed it over me.

The poem you shared is beautiful. “A day is not a lifetime, a rest is not defeat” is going to stay with me. Some days the mountain really does feel too big, and it helps to be reminded that it’s okay to choose the hill, to rest, to realign. When you said be gentle with myself, and I didn’t realize how much I needed to hear that

So thank you. For the prayers, for the wisdom, for seeing me and meeting me right where I am. I feel less alone tonight because of you. I’m praying too — for peace and strength for both of us, and that we’ll each climb our mountains in our own time.