Latest / DA CREW Podcast / My Future Is Bright: A Message to Every Domestic Violence Survivor
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- 0:01Speaker 1: I don't look like what I've been through. I survived
- 0:04Speaker 1: the storm.
- 0:06Speaker 2: I'm not staying in the rain.
- 0:10Speaker 1: God still has purpose in me.
- 0:12Speaker 3: My future is bright.
- 0:14Speaker 2: My future is bright. Yes, my future is bright.
- 0:20Speaker 3: I made it through darkness, now I'm walking in light.
- 0:23Speaker 1: My future is bright. Yes, my future is bright. What's
- 0:27Speaker 1: ahead of me is greater.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Than what I survived.
- 0:29Speaker 1: My scars may speak the nights I had to fight. Yeah,
- 0:33Speaker 1: still I rise and walk into the light. Fear lost
- 0:37Speaker 1: its grip, I'm stronger than before. Unchained, I'm stepping through
- 0:41Speaker 1: an open door. The pain I knew when I defined
- 0:44Speaker 1: my name. When the ashes' hope became my flame. Rising
- 0:46Speaker 1: with courage, I reclaimed my song. Every broken place has
- 0:49Speaker 1: made me strong. Tears on my pillow, prayers in the dark.
- 0:51Speaker 1: Grace for my pieces and cover my heart. I walked
- 0:53Speaker 1: through fire, but I didn't burn. Every hard lesson was
- 0:55Speaker 1: a page I turned.
- 0:56Speaker 2: I'm not who I was, I'm not where I am.
- 0:59Speaker 1: My future is bright.
- 1:01Speaker 2: I'm walking by faith, not by sight. What's ahead of me.
- 1:10Speaker 3: Is greater than the pain I suffer.
- 1:13Speaker 2: My future, my future.
- 1:17Speaker 1: I made it through the longest night.
- 1:30Speaker 2: I'm still alive. Tomorrow is mine. My future is mine.
- 1:38Speaker 1: Behind me lies what tried to dim my glow. Right
- 1:40Speaker 1: ahead are seeds of joy to grow.
- 1:42Speaker 2: I cannot cancel.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Purpose lives in me. Grace leads me forward, healed and free.
- 1:46Speaker 3: No more hiding. No more shame.
- 1:48Speaker 1: I cried, but I'm still here. I hurt, but I'm
- 1:52Speaker 1: still here. I've been, but I didn't break. I lost,
- 1:57Speaker 1: but I kept my faith. The storm didn't drown me.
- 2:03Speaker 1: The pain didn't end me.
- 2:05Speaker 2: God still restored me. Renewed without.
- 2:20Speaker 3: I am whole, I.
- 2:21Speaker 2: Am free, I am rise, I am strong, I am.
- 2:25Speaker 1: Worth, I belong, I am not my pain, I am
- 2:28Speaker 1: not my past.
- 2:29Speaker 2: What tried to break me did less, my future is bright,
- 2:35Speaker 2: I'm walking by faith, not by sight, what's.
- 2:40Speaker 3: Ahead of me is greater than the pain I survived.
- 2:48Speaker 2: My future is bright I made it through.
- 2:52Speaker 1: The longest night I'm healed, I'm free, I'm still.
- 2:56Speaker 3: Alive Tomorrow is mine My future is bright.
- 3:06Speaker 1: My past was painful.
- 3:07Speaker 3: But my future's not canceled There's still purpose in me
- 3:15Speaker 3: There's still.
- 3:15Speaker 2: Dreams in me.
- 3:18Speaker 1: There's still life.
- 3:21Speaker 2: Ahead of me.
- 3:22Speaker 3: My future is bright.
- 3:25Speaker 2: My future is bright. My future is bright.