Marisa Donnelly

Love is found in the wind. In the first fresh breath of morning air. In the silence of dawn, when the sun first starts to peek above the clouds.

You can’t be scared to love again because each love is a new chapter. And damn it, you deserve to write yourself a beautiful story.

You think I’ve abandoned you—but you are my creation—I will never leave you.

The truth is, when it’s right, you will know. You will have this sense of everything around you—peace, understanding, joy, rest. You won’t be afraid.

I’m learning the beauty of living in a place of ‘enoughness.’ Where right now is enough. Where I am enough. Where the people around me are more than enough. Where love is enough.

At the end of the day, no matter how small we feel, or how little of an impact we think we’re making, God can (and will) use us for big things.

Don’t be passive; be patient. Understand that things won’t always go according to your plan, but that’s okay. Trust in the timing. Trust in the unfolding.

This is your story. You are allowed to make mistakes, to erase pieces and rewrite them, to fall down and fail and start completely over with a page turn. You are allowed to love the wrong people and learn painful lessons. You are allowed to decide which faith you want to have, or none at all. You are allowed to kiss, to smile, to laugh, to forgive, to hope.

We each have a unique apology language that resonates with our hearts.

Someone who disregards her as ‘too emotional.’

I want a city kind of love. The kind of love that never stops moving, that’s alive and pulsing with rhythm and energy.

Your Leo’s apology language centers on words of affirmation.