What If It Was Always Safe?

We build walls around the heart not because we are weak, we are vulnerable, but because we once had no choice.

Somewhere along the way, protection became survival. Silence became safety. Distance became a form of self-love.

And yet, beneath those old defenses is a presence that never flinched. Never shut down. Never left.

It has been silently watching, eagerly waiting and whispering from the place untouched by fear.

What if it is safe now?

Not because the world has changed, but because you no longer need to carry the armor you once needed?

In the Book of Psalms, it is written:

"Be still, and know that I am God."

Stillness is not just peace. It is trust. Trust that you no longer need to guard what was never truly in danger.

you learned to close,

you learned to turn inward,

you learned to hold your breath,

long before anyone asked you to speak,

but what if you opened anyway?

not because everything is perfect,

but because you are no longer hiding,

the heart remembers,

the body forgives,

and the silence still welcomes you home,

you are not too soft for this world,

you are the softness it forgot,

Lay down what once protected you. Not to be unguarded, but to be whole, to be complete.

What if this moment, right now, is the one you were always safe in?

The danger has passed. The door is still wide open.

You are not losing. You are returning.

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