08/11/2026
I watched the Danny Pernell Jr. story, and what touched me wasn’t the violence—I don’t condone it, excuse it, or romanticize it. I would never pray to find myself in a situation like that.
But the GRACE? The LOVE? The ability to see somebody at their lowest and still remember the person you knew before they fell?
Whew… THAT spoke to me.
I want somebody to love me with some 1 Corinthians 13:4–8 type of love. ❤️
Not a love that makes wrong right,
but one that doesn’t disappear overnight.
Not a love that accepts pain and calls it fate,
but one with enough grace not to turn love into hate.
I want somebody who understands that I’m human too—
that sometimes I might fall apart while trying to make it through.
Someone who can see my scars and still recognize my soul,
who doesn’t throw me away just because life took its toll.
Baby, I don’t want that “as long as you’re perfect” love.
I want that God had to put His hands on this kind of love.
That “I’m disappointed, but I still care” love.
That “I need boundaries, but I can still say a prayer” love.
That “what you did was wrong, but you’re more than your worst day” love.
That grown, healed, got-some-sense-and-still-got-a-heart kind of way.
Because everybody wants love when the makeup right, the money good, and the vibes are vibin’…
But can you love with grace when life gets ugly?
Can you forgive without becoming a fool?
Can you have compassion and still keep your rules?
Can you love somebody and still tell them, “Nah, that wasn’t right,”
without turning every mistake into a reason to take flight?
I don’t want chaos.
I don’t want pain.
I damn sure don’t want trauma dressed up with love’s name.
I just want a love with roots deep enough to survive some rain.
A love that ENDURES.
A love that FORGIVES.
A love that has boundaries… but still knows how to LIVE.
And maybe that’s what touched something so deep inside of me…
I don’t want their story.
I just want to know that somewhere in this world, there’s somebody capable of having that much grace for mine. ❤️🩹
1 Corinthians 13:4–8