To The Broken…

To the kid who doesn’t wanna leave the house because he’s being bullied and believes he’s too weak to fight back

The kid who is called names at school

The kid who hates herself

The kid who thinks he is greatly inferior to others

The kid who falls into depression

The kid who is then told he’s “too young to be depressed,” and “doesn’t even understand the meaning of the word”

The kid who is laughed at by everyone except her few, cherished friends (thank God for them)

The kid who reaches adulthood without even realizing it, due to such low self-esteem

The one who has no clue what he wants to do with his life

The one who feels fully overwhelmed at life, and fully underwhelmed at her ability to navigate it

The one who is already having chronic pain issues in their 20s

The one whose life seems to be going the opposite direction of what he pictured

The one who thinks her dreams will never come true

The one who continues to suffer chronic physical and/or emotional pain, year after year after decade after decade

The one who bounces between depression, anger, anxiety and despair

The one who honestly couldn’t tell you whether or not they’ll survive today

The one who feels like crying, screaming into the wind to just “LEAVE ME ALONE!!!”

The one whose emotional state crashes now and again, spiraling them into despair

To the broken…

I’ve been all these people, and after all that pain, agony and despair, I know only one thing:

Everything really will be okay.

Eventually…

“(Jesus) will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever” (Revelation 21:4).

So we live to fight another day!

Never give up…never give in…never surrender.