✨ You Earned It: When the Universe Pays You Back

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Sometimes, we give with love — and it’s not received. Not truly.

We offer time, beauty, care, or wisdom, and instead of being met with gratitude, we’re met with silence… or even rejection.

But that doesn’t mean what we gave was wasted.
It means that the one who received it couldn’t hold it.

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Not Every Gift Is Meant to Stay

The baskets I crocheted for my mother were returned to me recently — no explanation. One after another.
A framed piece of sacred geometry, drawn with great care, was handed back last year.
There was no discussion. Just a quiet giving back.

And I took them.

Not because I wanted them returned. Not because I felt owed.
But because I understood something deeper:

You can give someone beauty, but if they don’t have the heart for it — they will return it, one way or another.

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Reclaiming Without Asking

Somewhere along this journey, I stopped needing people to keep what I gave them.
I stopped needing acknowledgment.
I stopped needing even understanding.

Because I began to witness something extraordinary:

• Friends began to give back — unprompted.

• A student I had once taught began helping my business, quietly, respectfully.

• Another friend, without any discussion, made a habit of paying me every so often. Not because I asked. But because, in her words: “You’re in need, and I know what you’ve given me.”

She gave me what others took and never returned. And the words that echoed?

“You earned it.”

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The Law of Return

There is a divine balance sheet — far beyond human memory or fairness.
It tracks not the quantity of what we gave, but the energy behind it:

• Did we give with love?

• Did we give without ego?

• Did we give what was ours to give?

If yes — then it is never lost.

If the person we gave to was not meant to hold it, then the universe reassigns the debt.
And life finds someone else to honor the exchange.
A friend, a stranger, a future moment.
But the return always comes.

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Not Everyone Who Takes, Keeps

Sometimes, people take things because they want what you represent.
They want your softness, your insight, your creativity — not your items. And because they cannot become you, they try to own what surrounds you.

But what they take without honor becomes heavy.
It loses its light.
They return it. Or life takes it from them.

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This Is Reclamation

Not with confrontation.
Not with demands.
Not with drama.

But with dignity.

Reclamation happens when you’re no longer trying to prove what was yours.
You simply receive it — when it returns.

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🌱 Reflection Prompt for the Reader

• What have you given that was never returned?

• Can you trust that life will return it in a higher form?

• Who in your life now is honoring you for what others ignored?

Let that be your confirmation.
You earned it.