When you’ve been carrying something for a long time, it’s easy to mistake a season for a destiny. To assume that because things have been hard, they will always be hard. To believe that because you can’t see what’s next, there isn’t anything coming. But your current reality is not the whole story. You have to trust that.
The best of your story hasn’t happened yet.
– Jacqueline Whitney
“What if this is as good as it gets?”
God: It isn’t.
I know that’s what it feels like right now. When you’ve been waiting long enough, the waiting starts to feel permanent. The heaviness starts to feel like home. The version of your life you’re living starts to feel like the final version. But this isn’t the final version.
What you’re in right now is a chapter, not full story. And I need you to stop reading the middle of the book like it’s the last page.
The love you’re wondering if you’ll ever feel? It exists. The lightness you’re afraid has left you for good? It’s coming back. The version of your life that feels fuller, softer, more like what you always imagined? It’s being built.
I know you’re tired of hoping. But I didn’t create you for a life that’s just tolerable. I didn’t bring you through everything you’ve survived just to leave you here.
This isn’t as good as it gets. This is as hard as it’s been. Those aren’t the same thing. Keep going. The best of your story hasn’t happened yet. I wouldn’t tell you that if it weren’t true.
Jacqueline Whitney is the author Held: A 50 Day Devotional For Parents and All That You Deserve.
