Some days are heavier than others, not because of our own burdens, but because we’re invited to witness the weight others are carrying. Yesterday was one of those days.
I sat across from two people who are deeply hurting. Decades of pain, fractured relationships, unresolved wounds, and the absence of intentional growth had left their lives in pieces. It would have been easy to write them off as “difficult” or “too far gone”but something told me to lean in instead.
And that’s when the shift happened.
Not because I had all the answers. Not because I offered any kind of magic solution. But because I offered space.
A quiet place to be seen.
A little love.
A little laughter.
A little loud music.
And in that space, something softened. Smiles, timid and fleeting emerged. Truths were spoken aloud for the first time in a long while. A small spark of light made its way in.
Forgiveness does that.
It clears space for joy.
It doesn’t excuse the past—but it does give the future a chance.
Forgiveness is especially powerful when it’s offered to someone who isn’t sorry because it’s no longer about them. It’s about us. About choosing peace over bitterness. Hope over heaviness. Healing over history.
I don’t know what you might be carrying today. But if there’s something in your life weighing you down, someone whose actions (or inactions) left a mark, I hope you’ll consider clearing a little space. Not for their sake, but for yours.
You never know what one moment of light might do.
Happy Independence Day.
Here’s to freedom in all its forms: especially the kind we create from within.
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