My Greatest Gift

My beautiful, sensitive heart… 

I’m so sorry for all that you’ve had to endure 
In a world that just wasn’t built for you. 

I can’t answer the questions you so deeply want answers to 
But I can hold you and tend to you and cherish you.


I do cherish you. 


I know that wasn’t always true. 

I’ve had to learn, mostly the hard way


...that you are my greatest gift. 


You are my compass, my hope, my passions. 

You are my home when this world feels so foreign to me. 


The way you show up, day after day, without waiver
Is one of the most beautiful acts 
Of unconditional love I’ve ever witnessed. 

The way you dream and feel and see reminds me 
To never lose hope. 

Even on the hardest days when I just wish you would be silent
You encourage me to keep going. 


You taught me what it is to feel with meaning 

To taste, and touch, and smell, and see, and hear... 
beauty everywhere. 


My dear sensitive heart,
You are not too much. 


You never were. 


Your strength amazes me 

You’ve shown me how to stand strong in the face of fear 

And how to soften into love in the face of hatred 


You are courageous. 

You are truthful. 

You are compassionate. 

You are filled with grace.

You are love, embodied. 


The thing I most hated about myself is now the thing I most cherish. 


Thank you. 


For guiding me, loving me, holding me, teaching me 
For allowing me to grow and contract without ever once leaving my side. 

Thank you for gently guiding me back home when I lose my way. 

Thank you for holding me close when the feelings are too much. 

Thank you for your unwavering LOVE.


You, my sensitive heart, are where I belong.