Beautiful and Aching Melissa,
So distraught and so shattered you feel; as if the walls around you were a dam breaking apart, releasing a flood of despair so hard not to sink into.
But you mustn't sink. Keep your head above the ever rushing seas of fear because there is so much more that isn't possible to see whilst amidst the crashing and towering waves of this tempest that blinds you.
How could anyone see past a fog so thick, or through winds so strong that it pains the eyes from opening?
Don't cast your anchor into this storm, sweet and aggrieved Melissa.
Even when you can't see the light on the horizon, it is there.
And it is very okay not to see it sometimes to. Sometimes all you can do is to reach out, (albeit blindly still), for the infinite reaching arms of Hope that knows where to find you when you are looking for her.
Hope will find you, dearest and most precious Melissa. And we are all here for you to see the hope and promise that shines so brightly for you, even for the days where the darkness of a storm is covering your eyes away from it.
So, please know that even when you can't see it- that it is there, as beautiful and true as your very own beautiful soul; and we will all hold tight to it for you and keep it strong and bright, until you can use it on your own, to bring you safely ashore.
So pull up your anchor, precious girl, we're all on deck with you and it's time to set sail.
Though it may be trying and it may be frighting, please fight to make it ashore.
You will make it to shore.
And when you do, lay your hand print in the sand. Because there is only one in the world that is you. Truly unique an truly beautiful. A gift to the world, with her own talents none other can do just the like, a mind that none other can think; eyes that none other can see through, and a heart that dances to its own song. A beautiful heart, and a beautiful soul. And a mark- that no one else in the world can leave.
You are amazing and beautiful, unique and exceptional. You are as boundless as the same sea that binds you, and the same sea that will bring you home.
All my love,
Oceansend