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of course.

we often tell ourselves, “this divorce would be easier if kids weren’t involved. i wish i didn’t have cancer. this addiction is killing me.” no. without your kid, without that disease, without the addiction, you would never know what “i fought the hardest i ever fought in my life” means.

and this is how everything that comes to you is a gift. some gifts just need to be unwrapped. your soul is like that, too: perfect, God’s gift. wrapped and covered in layers that must eventually be discarded, not because they are “bad,” but simply because they are obscuring the gift, what’s perfect, what wants to shine: your true self.

you didn’t come to this earth, as a diamond, that was meant to stay buried. no. and here’s how we help one another: sometimes it’s someone else who starts the digging that you, yourself, and only you, must finish. they can see the diamonds before you do. reveal your own diamonds, my friend. find the precious, find the love, find the warrior, find the queen within.