Sending Encouragement
Frustrated, mad, and sad,
This was not on your bucket list.
Neither the diagnosis, nor the medicines,
Or the thousands of dollars spent for treatment.
But you are more than this.
You are more than this one story of crisis.
You are more than the condition you manage.
You are not ultimately defined by this.
You may be living with it,
And you may have it,
But it does not have you.
Not all of you.
You can still do what you are able to do.
With tenacity, love, faith, and determination,
You laugh, cry, encourage, and bless.
You are the source of inspiration for someone else.
Even on your bad days or weeks or months,
Even when you struggle and experience setbacks,
Even then.
You are more than your condition.
May you transcend your unideal circumstances,
With grace, beauty, creativity and resilience,
That outshine the situation,
And overflow for good into the lives of others.
