Though I have failed, I am not a failure.

Though I have made mistakes, I am not a mistake.

Though I have been judged by many, forsaken by some, lied about by a few, I am not rejected by one.

For all the things I have done well & for all the things I have not; I am still enough, I still have value.

Not because my efforts suggest so, that reality has been made public enough, but because Jesus has determined it so. It is me he loves, not my ability to be good.

So regardless of my best efforts or my worst mistakes Jesus fights for me, and for more, because I am his.

Therefore I continue to dream, to adapt, to grow, to forgive, to move forward; slowly, but forward all the same. Leaning into the evolving future I imagine is possible because my value and worth remains a constant.