As hard as it is to wrap our minds around the fullness of what grace means, the beautiful thing is: we don't have to. Instead, we can look up to a sky filled with silver stars and say in this beautiful, majestic world, by grace I belong here too. We can look around and see how everyone else's lives seem to be filled with intention and forward movement, and know that our lives are filled with movement all the same. We can look at the broken pieces of our own hearts, the things that have been torn apart, and say: all by grace, I still matter. Even here, I have not been forgotten. I belong in this life just as much as anyone else.

No matter how you feel today or tonight, may you know this to be true. If you happen to feel small, when you look up to the stars, I hope you know it's okay to feel that way. It's okay if you don't always feel bold or strong or great because the truth is: just like the stars, you will shine on anyway. You will matter when you are singing; you will matter when you are not. You will matter when they care, and you will matter when they don't. All together, you will matter. Under a billion silver stars, you are never too small to be great, even when you feel that way.

May you find peace knowing that there will be people that never make room for you, but that does not mean there's no place for you to belong. There will be days where it is hard to engage and it's hard to stay focused and you cannot give all that you want to. But even then, those things are not a strike against you. You have not been restricted from waking up tomorrow morning and giving it another try. Every day, you have the opportunity to belong, and learn what it means to belong, over and over again. To trust that even when your circle of friends start to change and even when you move to a new city or you find yourself battling an unexplainable sense of loneliness, you are still worthy of belonging. Even if belonging looks different in this season. Even if belonging is the feeling you get when you turn your face to the midnight sky, and the stars remind you that you are free to shine. There are other people out there. There is room for new chapters to be written. There are connections waiting to be ignited that you have yet to see. Trust and believe you are free to shine on anyway.

Journal: How can you live the rest of this day more intentionally?

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