Marisa Donnelly

It’s okay to need people. It’s okay to need help. It’s okay to not be able to fight through the world’s chaos alone. You’re not meant to.

Listen: Who you are is someone to be proud of.

This year, don’t be afraid to cut social media (or real life) ties.

And maybe when you willingly sacrifice yourself, when you willingly share your vulnerability and imperfection, when you willingly entrust your heart in someone’s hands—that’s when you experience real love.

Know that you are loved. Know that you are strong. Know that you are beautiful and wonderful and complex and made by a God who will never leave or forsake you, no matter how much you push Him away.

I wish you enough love, enough life, enough purpose, enough brokenness, enough wholeness, so that your life is imperfect and beautiful and blessed.

Love is not perfection. In fact, it is everything but.

I need you.

I want to tell you I love you, but I won’t.

But the beauty about freefall, is in that moment, you find your wings.

Because weakness is like anything in this life – fleeting.

Lord, I need you. I need your grace. I need your forgiveness. I need your love to lift this heavy weight from my shoulders and help me begin again.

For hurting you. You haven’t been easy on this body, this brain, this soul.

You are loved, even when you do not love Him. Loved, even when you feel you are alone and forgotten. Loved, even, and especially when you are broken.

Make an uber-cute relationship time capsule to forever remember this day.

You’re analyzing hypothetical situations.

Today may be the hardest day you’ve ever gone through – but today is temporary.

I hope you become the light I see in you – the light that brightens rooms, lifts spirits, warms hearts. The light that has been inside you all this time.