A gentle reminder for the parent carrying more than anyone sees.

• you are doing better than you think
• the moments you’re replaying as failures are not the ones shaping them
• the small, unseen acts of love are the ones they’ll remember
• you don’t have to be enough on your own (you were never meant to be)

the prayer you whispered over them tonight was witnessed

– Jacqueline Whitney

• the patience you mustered today when you had nothing left was witnessed
• the way you chose softness when you wanted to be hard was witnessed
• the prayer you whispered over them tonight was witnessed
• the quiet decision to do it differently than it was done to you matters more than you realize

• rest is not optional, it’s part of how you sustain this
• you were chosen for these specific children
• you’re not failing them — you’re loving them in ways you can’t fully see yet
• you are held while you’re holding them

Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.