The Greatest Offering

God did not ask you to become someone else.

Not a brighter version,

not a purer version,

not even a wiser version.

God placed you here,

inside this body,

with this nervous system,

with this inheritance of patterns,

stories, and wounds.

The invitation was never to escape,

but to love

—to love the human you were given

so completely that even the “ugly truths”are met as children longing for home.

When you embrace your own fear,

you embrace fear in all beings.

When you hold your shame with tenderness,

you open a door for shame everywhere to soften.

When you forgive your own inheritance,

you release generations.

This is the secret.

The most radiant gift you can give the world

is not the light you spread,

but the love you pour into the one

who was placed in your care.

Love this human perfectly,

and you will discover

—that was all God ever wanted from you...