Come As You Are—There Is Room
Beloveds,
Friday finally got here.
And apparently everybody came through the door carrying something different.
One person brought joy.
One brought grief.
Somebody brought hope.
Somebody brought a blanket because this week has asked entirely too much already.
Somebody is laughing.
Somebody does not feel like laughing at all.
Somebody did something this week that may look tiny to everybody else but took everything they had.
And somebody barely made it to Friday.
Come on in.
You do not have to finish this week looking like somebody else’s version of okay.
That may be one of the hardest things we learn about doing life together.
We can share a room without sharing an emotion.
Your joy does not disrespect my grief.
My quiet does not reject your laughter.
Your need for company does not mean somebody else is wrong for needing a little space.
The person celebrating is not necessarily ignoring what hurts.
The person hurting has not necessarily forgotten everything worth celebrating.
We are human.
We arrive differently.
And maybe belonging was never supposed to require us to become emotionally identical before we could sit beside one another.
Some weeks end with answers.
Some end with victories.
Some end with plans.
Some end with us looking at the same unanswered mess that was sitting there Monday morning.
And some Friday nights the only thing we know for certain is:
I am here.
You are here.
And there is room for both of us exactly as we arrived.
No performance.
No emotional dress code.
No requirement that everybody in the room call this week good just because it is finally over.
We made it here differently.
That counts too.
So bring your joy.
Bring your tired.
Bring your quiet.
Bring the thing you are proud of.
Bring the thing you are still trying to understand.
Bring your popcorn if that is what kind of Friday you are having. 🍿
And if Life comes bursting through the door tonight carrying one more problem like it forgot to give us something—
I believe this may be the one thing the entire room can agree on:
Life.
Don’t.
😂
Happy Friday, beloveds.
Come as you are.
There is room.
loving me some you
Cassandra
#YourLifeMattersToMe
