How can I be thankful in the face of great pain? Is it appropriate? Right now, I hold a baby that I wasn’t sure I was ever going to get. She is perfect, healthy, sweet, and so small. I am thankful. I am so glad that she is here, and she is mine. But I…
It was a particularly difficult night of what had already been a terrible week. It didn’t seem right that I had to suffer this way. I had lived a strict life with a healthy diet and regular exercise regimes. I did all the “right things” and yet my health was still failing me. What else…
In the midst of it. Rain dripping off the roof. Birds singing in the yard. Thoughts racing to and fro. Minutes ticking into hours. In the midst of it. Words fading into distant memories, voices falling into echoes. Stillness settling in, in the midst of it, arms seem to enfold in the aching, in the…