Love Them Tonight, Let Go of Tomorrow

The house is quiet now, but your heart is still loud with the fear of tomorrow. You are holding a child who might be taken, loving someone you may have to release.

That tension is not a failure of faith; it is the cost of loving deeply in a broken world. The light does not ask you to stop feeling the dread.

It asks you to bring the dread into the room with it. There is a love inside you that is stronger than the system, stronger than the uncertainty, stronger than the goodbye that may come.

You did not generate this love on your own; it was placed in you to hold this child, no matter how long the season lasts. The light is not in the future outcome you cannot control.

It is right here, in the ordinary act of tucking them in tonight. Love them.

The rest is not yours to carry.