A love letter from The Church of Tinkerbell to every soul who’s ever been made to feel unworthy
There’s a moment — sometimes many — when you start to wonder if maybe they were right.
Maybe you really are too much.
Or not enough.
Maybe there’s something wrong with you.
Maybe you were made broken.
After all, they said it with such certainty. The preachers, the teachers, the parents, the lawmakers, the peers.
They wrapped their warnings in scripture, in science, in shame.
They called it love, even when it felt like rejection.
They said, “We only want what’s best for you,” right before they told you to be someone else.
And so you learned to carry a silent weight:
If I want love, I have to change who I am.
But here, in the warm, glowing heart of The Church of Tinkerbell, we’re lighting a candle for a deeper truth — one they were too afraid to tell you:
You are not broken. You are a miracle.
What If There Was Never Anything Wrong With You?
It’s easy to internalize shame when the world builds its systems around it.
When you’re queer, trans, disabled, neurodivergent, fat, poor, sensitive, chronically ill, or otherwise not what the world expected, it can feel like a personal failing.
They frame their intolerance as care.
Their discomfort as fact.
Their prejudice as truth.
But let’s be clear: You are not the problem.
You were never meant to fit into their cruel and colorless boxes. You are starlight in a jar too small to hold you. You are a wildflower in a room of fake plants. You are a living, breathing rebuke to systems built on sameness.
And that is not a flaw. That is freedom trying to be born.
Tinkerbell’s Gospel: The More You Believe, the Brighter You Glow
Tinkerbell doesn’t wait for the world’s approval. She doesn’t ask for permission to sparkle.
She feels deeply. She loves fiercely. She exists without apology.
And when others believe in her, she shines.
What if you believed in yourself like that?
What if you stopped trying to earn worthiness and simply claimed it?
What if the feelings you were taught to silence — your longing, your joy, your sorrow, your wonder — were actually sacred signals calling you back to yourself?
Belief is not just about fairies. It’s about you.
It’s about daring to believe that your queerness is not a glitch. Your neurodivergence is not a deficit. Your emotions are not excess.
They are part of your design.
Healing From Holy Harm
Many of us were taught that being different meant being damaged.
That your body was impure.
That your gender was unnatural.
That your love was sinful.
That your questions were dangerous.
Spiritual trauma is real.
So are the wounds of growing up queer in a world built on fear.
But healing is possible.
Not through erasure.
Not through pretending.
Not through becoming palatable.
But through honoring who you are — as you are.
Pride Month is not just a party. It’s a pilgrimage for the wounded. A healing rite. A reunion with your radiant self.
The Sacred Work of Becoming You
Here at The Church of Tinkerbell, we don’t ask you to be good enough.
We ask you to be true enough.
To be kind to yourself.
To be curious.
To be brave, even if only in whispers.
To know this:
There is divinity in your delight.
There is holiness in your honesty.
There is resurrection in your refusal to hate yourself.
You don’t have to be fixed because you’re not broken.
You just have to be loved—and that starts with you.
A Blessing for the Miracle That Is You
🕯 Blessed be the queer, the soft, the unsure.
🕯 Blessed be the ones who hide and the ones who shine.
🕯 Blessed be the spectrum of gender, mind, and body.
🕯 Blessed be the survivors of shame.
🕯 Blessed be the ones still becoming.
And blessed be you, beloved spark,
for waking up again today
and daring to believe in your own light.
