Do you need time?
“Time is God’s quiet reminder that every sunrise is a second chance, not to relive the past, but to make peace with it.”
If you asked me whether I need time, I would probably pause before answering. Because time.. Because honestly it is such a fragile thing. You never realize how much of it you have wasted until it becomes the one thing you cannot get back. And if I could ask for more, I would ask for time, not to change the past, but to hold it a little longer. Time to make things right with my late mom, to tell her one more time how much I love her, how much her absence shaped me in ways her presence once protected me from. Time with my dad, to sit beside him, not even needing to speak, just to feel the quiet comfort of knowing he is there.
I would ask for more time to be a better daughter, the kind that understood earlier, that loved louder, that stayed longer. More time to fight harder against the lies and misunderstandings that tore things apart, to prove my truth before time took away the chance. More time to repent for the moments I strayed, not out of rebellion, but confusion. More time to become who I was meant to be, not the version people saw, but the one GOD envisioned when He breathed life into me.
But I also know something deeper now, time is never promised, only loaned. And I do not know how much of it I have left. My health reminds me daily that tomorrow is a privilege, not a guarantee. So I choose to live the days I do have as though they were handpicked by grace itself, because they are. I woke up this morning, and that alone means I have been gifted more time, time to make peace, time to forgive, time to love, time to thank GOD even when I do not understand His timing.
I have learnt that the best way to make things right with life is to make things right with GOD. Because when He is at the center, everything else begins to align. So yes, if you ask me, I do need time, but I am also deeply thankful for the time I have already been given.
Because every sunrise is mercy in motion, every breath is proof that purpose still lives within me, and every second is a sacred chance to become who I was meant to be, before my time runs out.