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Kim Williams, M. Div.'s avatar

This is such a gentle post. It feels like the very nudge you’re describing. Thank you for this.

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Cigarette Talk's avatar

Thank you for reading ❤️

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Mother Hood's avatar

Oh I needed to hear this more than you could ever know, thank you 😭

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Cigarette Talk's avatar

I hope you’re able to heal from all the unspoken things you’re going through ❤️ thank you reading!

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Ellie Bates Chappell's avatar

This makes me feel held and comforted. Going through failure of a 24 year marriage where lack of true love was never was the issue. So hard to let go and to not ache. So hard to let go and stop beating myself up for my failure. Now, stepping out of my comfort zone of not trying for fear of failure and rejection. I don’t know if grad school is the right path for me, but it’s something I want and feel encouraged to do. My acceptance to one of a variety of schools and the amount of student aid I receive will be my guidance from the Universe. Only then, I suppose, will I know whether to devote myself to school or to let go and move on to the next thing.

Thanks so much for your gentle and most helpful piece. Like others have said, it’s as clear, motivating, and kind as the Universe itself. ♥️

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Rea de Miranda's avatar

You look beyond the failure, the beautiful lesson, and the diversion to the right path.

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Priya Hinduja's avatar

Loved the way this was written! Thanks for sharing❤️❤️

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Marpy Hayse's avatar

Amen and amen!

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Tara Longo's avatar

🩷 lovely written

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Amanda Blain's avatar

All of this. 🔥🔥🔥

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Adrião Pereira da Cunha's avatar

This letter speaks to the tender ache of failure, but turns it into a gesture of care.

It reminds us that “no” is not rejection, but a quiet redirection toward something larger.

The harsh verdict we imagine is softened into a whisper: “maybe not this door, maybe not this version of you.”

God’s hand here is gentle, turning our face toward paths we would not have chosen alone.

Failure becomes a map, not a mirror, guiding us away from rooms too small for our becoming.

Dreams that collapse are not proof of weakness, but space opening for truer desires.

Worth is shown to live deeper than outcomes, untouched by the noise of success or collapse.

The text honours resilience: grieving what was lost, yet listening for the soft turn of life.

It teaches gratitude for detours, for the tender “no” that protects us from shrinking.

In the end, failure is revealed as love in disguise, guiding us home another way.

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Forest Night's avatar

Poetic and real.

Very well written.

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Jon Schnorenberg's avatar

I love this piece! So encouraging...and so true...

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Belinda Drakes's avatar

Sometimes life closes a door in Cozyville before we’re brave enough to walk out of it ourselves. Not because we failed, but because that room got too small for who we’re becoming. Bee always says the universe is a quiet cartographer, redrawing our map while we’re busy judging ourselves. The soft no is usually the turn we didn’t know we needed.

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Cigarette Talk's avatar

It is ❤️

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San's avatar

Much appreciated today 💓👍🌈🌟🎉🌺

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Stephanie M. Vargo's avatar

Very wise.

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