Brand New Chapters

While my trauma has lived on
in the heart of my inner child
it has been writing chapters;
chapters full of instability,
chapters full of struggle,
chapters full of scarcity.

But I am beginning to heal and transform
that which lies within the heart of my inner child.
I have been ever so gradually
changing the core beliefs that have resided there.
There was a time when I believed
that I would always return to a place of suffering.
There was a time when I believed
that no one had my back.
There was a time when I believed
that all of my mistakes were unforgivable.
And these beliefs have been
vanquished, banished, extracted, and extinguished.

I will not allow my trauma to write any more chapters.
I will, instead,
allow the power and the grace of God that lives within me
to write chapters full of joy and peace and ease.
I will not allow my trauma to write any more chapters.
I will, instead,
allow the love and light of God that lives with in me
to write chapters full of laughter and contentment.