Keep believing in love (renewal, wholeness, fulfillment, embrace, care). When you’re longing and your hands are empty-handed. When life burns, when it hurts, when your heart aches, when it’s been years and you’re still waiting. When it’s the season of harvest and you’re still in a fallow season regarding something that really matters to you.

This is what it means to hope.

Do this with the longings you don’t tell anyone you’ve been holding deep in your heart. And also with your questions that don’t have answers. Let your hope be like even just a tiny flame that stays lit in the dark, quiet corners of your life. Your hope will be like a promise that more light (love!) is coming. That life is a series of seasons. That the tide must turn again, even if just for a moment.

Love is a force. In our common language, we’ve diminished the meaning of it and applied it to trivial things, but love is the most extraordinary, transformative, alchemizing energy there is. It is life; it survives death. You are love.