Here is what I know. Your obstacles, your broken places, the spots where you’ve healed, the things you’ve overcome—this is the source of your strength and also the source of your beauty. You will come to a time when you say, “I’m so glad that thing I feared or dreaded happened because I would not be me without it. I wouldn’t have learned compassion or empathy. I would not have known the determination or grit deep within me.”
