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birthday reflection

Writer: Cristina Ferri
Cristina Ferri
Mar 23
1 min read

i almost didn’t share this.

it wasn’t the picture i would have chosen,

but maybe that’s the point.


Grace rarely arrives dressed in perfection.


here i am.

softened.

worn in the holy ways that Life carves us open.


made new again.

forty nine times around the sun,

each orbit a quiet becoming,

through loss, through healing,

through the slow sacred work of learning how to stay.


it hasn’t been easy.

but it has been true.


and somehow,

in ways I cannot fully name,

hope still rises in me

like breath,

like prayer,

like light that refuses to be extinguished.


so here I am.

still becoming.

still believing.

still held.


forty-nine | Level 99, Providence | 2026
forty-nine | Level 99, Providence | 2026

 
 
 

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