I allow love to meet me with rest, gentleness, and grace.
Today, I release the need for love to be loud, corrective, or earned.
I allow love to be gentle in all areas of my life — with my body, my thoughts, my healing, and my becoming.
I bless the places where I have been hard on myself, expecting perfection where grace was needed.
I remember that rest is not weakness — it is sacred alignment.
Today, I give myself permission to pause without guilt.
Even when I don’t know what the next loving step looks like, I trust that choosing not to react is still choosing light.
Silence can be holy.
Stillness can be faithful.
Not knowing can be safe.
I honor the truth of who I am — imperfect, human, learning, and still deeply loved.
I do not have to fix, prove, or carry everything today.
I set down what was never meant to be held alone.
I remind myself gently:
Even on tired days, quiet days, uncertain days — I am still walking in the light.
Love is not asking more of me than I can give.
Love is meeting me right here.
Love and light to all… and so it is.
— Rev. Angela Joy July
Still I Rise Ministries