"A Blessing for When You Need It" by Margaret Ernst

save this blessing for when you most need it.
for loneliness.
for fear.
save this blessing for exhaustion.
for anxiety.
for crisis.
save this blessing
for when you feel torn between worlds
between longings
for when you're caught in the crossfire
and for when you feel you cannot breathe

save this blessing
for when the world you are birthing
with your bare hands
is not coming fast enough

most importantly:
save this blessing for when you think
the last thing you deserve is a blessing.
for when the right words are not coming.
for when you want to quit.
and when the work
feels like it's never enough
and that it will not save you.

save it because
this blessing
refuses to believe
the worst thing you say about yourself.
the worst things anyone has ever said to you.
and refuses to let either have the final word.

this blessing
will not try to fix you.
or silence you.
or make you into something you are not.
it will not whisper false hope
or have the answers.
but it will breathe by your side.

here is what this blessing knows:
that you are needed.
that your people need you.
and that if you haven't found your people yet
or lose them
they can always be regrown.
in other words,
let this blessing be a safe house.
let it be a dream.
let it be laughs that slip through the cracks.
let it be dancing.
let it be another start.
let it be the tap on your shoulder
letting you remember you do
not have to do
anything
alone.