138. Tornado

You will have questions for the rest of your life.

But you’re not alone.

You will question yourself and your actions all the days you breathe air.

But you’re not abandoned.

You are only one and nobody else is like you.

But your life is not solitary and never will be.

You will keep hurting until your last breath.

But believe the hurt can be taken away.

Reach out for more because more is there. Reach out and believe with a heart as soft as the air flowing through your open fingers. Reach out and know that I’m there.

Reach out and touch faith, Chris.

Stare up in the eye of the storm. Don’t let the tornadoes blow you down.

Don’t ever stop.

Grow and question and wonder and cry and laugh and try and fail.

But don’t ever stop.

Continue on.

As many days and weeks and months and years as you have.

Blinks, all of them, in light of the good grace you’re given.

Keep going.

Look back not with fear and bitterness but with love.

Look ahead with the same love.