Just A Dad-A place for encouragement and support

This Story

Open

Your book

Look at the pages

Not the pristine pages but

The torn pages

The pages that have tear stains as if they

have been tie dyed by your amount

Of failures

Those pages that you scribbled on trying

To change the outcome

Notice all of the time you had happiness

But

Erased the Happi and replaced it with S A D

Here is the tough part

Look at all the pages you tore out

The ones you ripped

Hoping that it would erase your memories

The pages you crumbled up

Threw away

Hoping that your past

Went along with them

Your story

Was tough

A story that had you questioning your own life

A story that challenged you to change the narrative

But instead

The characters were still traumatized

The feelings

The emotions

Followed in every chapter

Your story

May have been pre determined

But satan placed many obstacles in your path

Changing the plot and damaging the ending

People

Situations

Illness

Death

Became your table of contents

Anxiety

Depression

Subtitles that started haunting you

Keep turning the page

Here are the pages that really matter

The blank pages

The pages that will determine how your novel ends

The pages that you can use to write words that will

No longer define who you are

The pages

That God has set aside for you

Blank pages

Are just that

Pages that you can use to make a way

When there is no way possible

Pages that beg for you to keep going

Blank pages that will become

Chapter

After

Chapter

After

Chapter giving you a chance

To get up

And proceed with your life

And those tears

They can continue to drop

And stain your story

Because tears will always happen

Unfortunately

But, it’s up to you to use those tears as quotations for your story

The characters on these pages are going to change

Meaning

Editing your life

Will never change

That eraser

Will continue to be used

That S A D

Will eventually turn

To Happi again

That hope

That fearlessness will return

Allowing you to bypass the reminders of pages torn

And fill those blank pages

With ink

Showing your determination

Expressing your perseverance

Journaling accomplishments

Instead of defeat

Turn the page

Write

Because this story

Is far from over