Encouragement is Sunshine for the Soul

Encouragement is like sunshine: it shines light into dark places and helps things grow.  It warms hearts cold with fear or discouragement.  Encouragement brightens our day.  It reaffirms that we matter, that someone sees our discouragement and cares enough to speak, either in words or actions.

The encouragement mentioned in the last post continues to bear fruit: I'm facing fears, trying new things, and growing in new ways.  All because a friend stated the obvious: I'm loved, wanted, and needed.  Such a gift.

Hell Healed

A year ago was a very hard time, described in the previous post.  Yesterday was almost a replay of that with a day-long Acro workshop.

I reached out to a dear friend who had attended and shared this blog with her.  Here is what she wrote back:

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Sweet Gail.  Thank you for sharing and helping me to better understand.  I'm really happy you felt you could.  I can see why yesterday was an especially rough experience now.

You are always so very wanted.

We love you.💗

You have the capacity for joy of a kid and you're fueled by a desire to help others to grow.  I admire, respect, and care about you.  Watching you blossom as a flyer and now as a base is something that [we] have brought up many times as being something we've enjoyed watching.

Dear Gail, you're loved, wanted, and needed.  Never let anyone dampen your spirit.  The world needs as many Gails as it can get but it only has one. 😢

Love you dearly and please know you can always count on us and always join in play. Xxxxxx

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It is such a joy, blessing, and answered prayer to be "loved, wanted, and needed."