My Heart Tonight

Brokenness.

Humility.

Surrender.

When all of life falls apart, when everything that you’ve valued, loved and created falls away, what do you have left?

What do you stand on?

When the ones that you love can no longer love you the same, where does your value lie?

To you who messed up, made too many wrong choices, hurt too many people too many times – don’t give up.

To you who know that you didn't deserve all of those chances and you don’t deserve another chance – don’t sabotage yourself, take it.

To you who feel hopeless without a place to call home – don’t lose hope.

To you who struggle to find purpose and meaning, you who think that you amount to nothing because you’re not somebody’s everything – you’re wrong.

To Him, you are everything.  You are worth every blood drop, every scrape, every bruise, every insult, and every wound. To Him, you are worth holding close, you are worth calling, you are worth loving.

There are too many people in my life that I see fighting the lies that this world throws at us everyday. The problem is that they fight the lies with lies and after a while they can’t figure out if they’re up or down and truth feels like a fantasy.
I know peace. I know security. I know hope.

I also know how loudly the lies can shout. It’s not easy. I won’t pretend otherwise. But it’s worth it. 

I want you to know it too.

Surrender to the One who created all things, who holds the world in His hands, who gave us the gift of choice and wrote His law upon our hearts, is not captivity. It is not restriction. It is freedom. Freedom from striving, from proving, from fighting, from earning, from failing. Freedom from the forced fallings of the world around us.

To those of you suffering, for whatever reasons, know that YOU ARE LOVED.

Don’t give up.

Don’t lose hope.

Don’t listen to the lies.

Look up.