Thursday, December 20, 2012

It's Not the End, But If It Were....

If this were the end, I'd want you to know:

I cared a lot more than you knew.  So many times I bore your burdens around my shoulders and let them press heavy against my throat.  Sometimes I made seemingly foolish choices trying to help you or protect you, and the scars remain red on my flesh. Just because I hurt myself--and perhaps you, the one I hoped to help--doesn't mean I would change a thing. We all need friends who will come beside us and carry us through; at times, there is a toll taken on beasts of burden.  And that's okay.

You matter to me, and others, in some way.  If you ever reach the end of a day where loneliness is your only companion and it all seems so worthless, I pray that somehow you remember that you add meaning and color--no matter how subtle--to all around you with every breath.

There is a hope for each of us.  My hope has a heavenly name, God.  I do not know if He is your hope, as well, but it is my deepest longing that you have a hope of your own.

You are loved.

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