Daily encouragement for anyone carrying something heavy.

Messages For Your Soul is a place for gentle words of hope. It is for the person who looks fine on the outside, yet feels tired, worried, or worn out inside. It is for the one who needs to hear that their story still matters and that they are enough.

This project grew out of my work on Captured by the Enemy: The True Story of POW Carl Leroy Good. While writing my grandfather’s World War II story, I found myself returning to one idea. Every person carries “secret shadows of pain” in their eyes. Pain has no preference. It touches every age and background. Every person carries an unseen cross.

Messages For Your Soul is my way of responding to that truth. I may not know the details of your story, but I believe there is always room for more kindness, more understanding, and more hope.

Here you will find simple messages that say:

• You are seen.
• You are loved.
• You are not alone in your story.
• You are enough.

Sometimes the message will be a short paragraph. Sometimes it will be a single sentence or a quote paired with a peaceful image. All of it is meant to give your heart a little more breathing room on the hard days and to point you toward the quiet strength you already have inside you.

If you would like to share a brief note, suggest a topic, or tell me how one of the messages helped you, you are welcome to go to the Message For Your Soul Facebook page and write a message there. I am grateful you are here and I hope these messages bring light to your day.