The things that hurt the most, teach the most......

Movement From Moment To Moment

Along the sometimes rugged paths of her life journey she has learned the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul. She has leaned that love doesn't mean leaning on someone and having a partner does not always mean security as kisses aren't contracts and presents aren't always promises.

She is learning to accept her defeats with her head up and her eyes ahead with the grace of a woman and not the grief of a child. She is building all new roads today because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for making plans and the future has a way of offering false hope.

It has taken her a lifetime to realize that even 'sunshine' burns if she gets too much of it, so she will now plant her own garden and decorate her own soul, instead of waiting to be given flowers. 

She has learned, most importantly, that she really can endure, that she really is strong, and really does have worth and that with every goodbye she really can continue to learn.....  

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