... what can I give you for the day when you realize you don’t know what you’re doing or where you’re going? A day that will come, as surely as the night follows the day. A day when you lost your way, your light, your joy, and maybe even yourself. A day, in fact, when all you have are questions, not one single answer, and these questions feel like a nest of snakes slithering back and forth through your brain. I give you reassurance.
-- Alice Walker

Reassurance by means of encouragement, encouragement that reminds you that your principle and purpose are larger than what you’re facing. Encouragement that lifts your dispiritedness and unhappiness and replaces them with resolve and an attitude of audacity to continue the path that lays before you. Encouragement that helps you to keep it all in perspective irrespective of the circumstances by which it all comes at you. Encouragement that urges you to keep your brilliant light shining even when those around you want to extinguish it.

Reassurance in the form of support, support that lets you know you’re not by yourself and don’t have to travel this journey by yourself. Support that assures that even when it’s too heavy, too ugly, or just too much, you don’t have to carry it alone nor do you have to figure it out by yourself. Support that allows you to lean on another without fear of rejection, burden, reproach, or betrayal. Support that promises whatever decision you make, you won’t lose this support, that you will still be championed for the exceptional person you are.

Reassurance through comfort, comfort in a hug, a cool drink, a hand to hold, and a shoulder made for your quiet tears and earnest thoughts. Comfort that soothes and eases and provides a balm over what aches to make it more tolerable and solvable. Comfort that strengthens your fortitude for the next leg of the journey, that sustains you as you go through.

Reassurance in the form of hope, hope that things become different, better, manageable, and that when they do, that same hope covers and marks you as you carry on the good fight.

Reassurance via the activation of faith, faith that you are okay and will make it past this situation. Faith that even though today may not be okay and that it may take more than a while for you to see a brighter day, the other side of this mountain is full of reward all because Jesus said if you believed in Him you could have the desires of your heart. Faith that will get you over that mountain because Jesus said your life was not meant for confusion and paid it all so that you could live your life more abundantly.

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