What's best for me is remembering that conviction doesn't have to be cruel. My faith is real. My experience of God filling the voids in my life is real. But other people's different experiences are also real. They're living their own truth right now, and while I believe their paths might be incomplete without God, that doesn't make my job to condemn them. It makes my job to love them anyway. 💗

I think what's best for me is to be less certain about who has emptiness and who doesn't. Because maybe some people experience the presence of God differently than I do. Maybe the sacred shows up in their lives in ways I don't recognize. Maybe my job isn't to decide whether they're spiritually fulfilled—that's between them and God, not between them and me. 🕊️

What's best for me is to hold my beliefs intensely while holding other people gently. To stop looking at the world through the lens of who's right and who's wrong, who has it figured out and who's lost. To recognize that faith is something lived and felt, not something used as a weapon to make others feel smaller. 💕

The best version of me is someone who believes deeply and loves widely. Not someone who believes deeply and loves only those who believe exactly like I do. That's not what my faith is calling me to do. Is it possible to have strong convictions and still extend genuine grace to people who don't share them? 🤔 Yes. And that's what's best for me to practice. 🕯️