Scared of Beautiful: Dear Lost Friend

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Dear Lost Friend,

I wish I could save you. I wish I could help you see this from the outside looking in. I don’t want to be your enemy. I just want to be your friend. I want to help you see that you deserve better than what you’re accepting from yourself. I love you too much to watch you settle here. I’ve seen you fight too hard to give in now. You’re too young, too smart, too incredible to let this beat you. I wish I could show you at the heart of your frustration is fear. You’re so much stronger than you appear.


You spent your whole entire life avoiding becoming this person. When will you learn that fear has no place here? When will you allow yourself to tap into the person that He desires for you to be? I hear you saying "Life just isn't fair Cre" and I sympathize with you. I hear you. I too have felt wronged by this thing we call life. My struggle was different from yours, but I didn’t escape struggle altogether. And I know you want to believe that you have a special kind of hurt that no one could possible understand. I’m trying to help you see the cause may be different but the pain is nothing new. Someone on this earth has survived what’s killing you.

He knows you’re breaking. He knows you think you’re hiding it from Him. It’s killing Him to watch your fears murder your dreams. He wants us to see how beautiful our lives can become when we stop letting panic chase our hopes. You’re letting fear distract you from His race and His purpose. The pain slowed your pace. But I found out hope has more endurance and speed than fear ever could.

You will feel pain but eventually that will turn into happiness. Do not be afraid to feel happy. To enjoy happy. The world will make you feel cramped and like your life still doesn't matter. Do not cling to that. Cling to the ideas and thoughts that you are not alone because the Father is with you. Stand boldly and proudly be you. I have carried the bag of shame and have felt the liberation that comes when you finally place it down. You can leave it at the well and walk away whole and experience life's beauty.


Friend I wish I could make you feel the warmth of the God’s light. It’s the only way I learned to chase the cold that comes with life’s terror. I believe in you still. I know a lot of people have given up on you. I know that you don’t think anyone will stand by you, but I’m here. I won’t pretend that you’re okay, but I won’t leave you while you’re afraid. I’ll be the quiet nudge of truth when you start to believe the lie you live. I’ll be your friend even if it means I have to sound like your enemy.


Life may have forced you to give up your dream, but I saved them in my heart. 


Dear God, 
There is a friend out there that is walking in fear. That fear has turned into pain and that pain has turned into a pause moment. Help my friend to know that they are not bound to the fear that comes with walking in the light. Father let our hearts not be troubled.
Signed,
We are Found


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