“You asked me if “we are accepting defeat now” and my answer is NO! I’m not going to let this define me. It happened. It’s was unfair. It was not my fault. I’ll cry but I’ll get up. What’s on the inside of me was put there for a reason and this isn’t going to keep me from depositing it into the world. I have no idea how long it will take for me to heal from this but I’ll definitely be intentional about it. Those girls need me. I know this pain too well to allow someone to inflict it on another person. I have no idea how this will work but I trust God. He started it, He’ll see it through. I also don’t know why we’ve been placed in these situations but like you said, let God’s will be done.” I wrote that message to my friend and that’s basically where the strength to record today came from.