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When You Realise You Survived the Thing That Was Supposed to Break You

Survival as sober power, not sentimentality.

Abraham of London
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You made it.

Not unscathed. Not unchanged.
But you made it.

The thing that threatened to destroy you
did not destroy you.

And that is not a small thing.


Survival is not just about endurance.
It's about what you learn in the process.

The strength you didn't know you had.
The resources you didn't know were available.
The faith that was tested and did not fail.

This week, name what did not destroy you.
And name what it taught you.

Not to glorify the pain.
To honour what you've become because of it.

You survived.
And now you have something to offer
that you didn't have before.

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