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With love and expectancy,
Rev. Dr. Lael C. Melville
Founder, While You Wait Ministries


Your Words Shape Your Healing

Women from the While You Wait Ministries leadership team gathered together in a warm reflective moment beside the quote “Stop shrinking your truth to fit into ‘I’m fine.’” by Dr. Lael C. Melville.

Did you know, the way you describe your pain matters more than you think.

If “I’m fine” is the only sentence you allow yourself to say, you are limiting what God can restore in you. New words create new understanding. Instead of minimizing what you carry, God is inviting you to express it. To say, “I feel overwhelmed.” “I feel unseen.” “I feel hurt.”

These are not complaints, beloved. These are pathways. Your words give shape to what God wants to address in you. So stop shrinking your truth to fit into “I’m fine.” There is more healing waiting in honest language.

Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. Psalm 62:8

Father, help me find the right words for what I feel. Teach me to express, not suppress. Amen.

Write one honest sentence about how you feel.


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