you can do this

 Dear (you),

    You may have woken up this morning with a sadness in your heart, you may feel like you just can't make it through what this day is going to throw at you. You may be taking a break from disciplining your kids and feeling like they just don't understand why you don't think it's the best idea to jump from the top on the kitchen counter to the kitchen table, pretending the "floor is lava". You may feel broken, unwanted, unworthy, or living with shame. You may be going through what seems to be the toughest season of your life. Maybe your friend has said something that really hurt your feelings, maybe you started your period yet again after months of trying for a baby. Maybe you just don't know what to do in a situation. Maybe your marriage is falling apart, or it already has. Maybe you're waiting on something to come to be that just seems like it never will come. Maybe you have lost all hope. If any of these circumstances or situations are you, or maybe there is something I haven't said specifically but you still need to hear this it is this. You can do this. You can do this. You can do this. Whatever it is, you can do this. I believe in you. Let this message be for you and take these words to heart. These were the words I've heard throughout many seasons of my life that I honestly wished I was never in, and it took me a very long time to finally believe them. I was sharing with my counselor some different circumstances I was going through, and I was feeling hopeless and I said, "I just don't know if I can do this." I truly believed that. And they looked at me square in the face and said..."you already are. You are already doing this". Sometimes our situations take up so much space in our lives that we don’t realize we are already doing the things that scare us. We are already surviving the things we thought we would never survive, or would barely survive. You, my friend, are already doing it. I am already doing it. Every single day that you have breath in your lungs and decide to get out of bed, you are doing it. Even if your circumstances don’t change, even if what you are praying for never comes to be, you can rest in the fact that you are strong and courageous just as you are. You have been and will always be enough. I want to encourage you today in this moment that friend, you are seen. I may not know your situation and I may never will, but I want you to know that you matter. Your life matters, your heart matters, and your feelings matter. Rest in that. Believe in that. I believe in you.

your friend, cass