The Lantern Heart

There was a season in my life when I felt completely lost… like I wasn’t enough.

In the span of a year, I met heartbreak, deep loneliness, and the loss of my father. I learned how to carry it all quietly—how to look strong while feeling heavy.

So I wrote.

Page after page, I poured out the weight I didn’t know how to speak. But when I looked back, my words were filled with pain—hurt, guilt, resentment, insecurity.

And then… life shifted.

I found love again.

I became a mother.

And for the first time, I felt a kind of love I didn’t know existed—one that softened me, changed me, made me whole in ways I didn’t expect.

It made me wonder… why don’t I write about joy?

So I began again.

I wrote about love.

About light.

About this little soul who changed my world.

Somewhere between those pages, I found healing.

And somewhere in that healing, a quiet wish formed—to turn those words into a song for her. I didn’t have the gift to create it… but my husband did. So I shared my heart, and together, we gave it melody.

“Since the Day I Held You” was born from those pages—from pain, from healing, from a love only motherhood can teach.

This song is for my daughter. And maybe… for anyone who needs to remember:

even after the heaviest seasons,

something beautiful can still grow.

I can’t wait to share it with you.

Coming soon. 💕