Most of us have taken hard paths that we later regret . . .mainly because they were so hard! It’s easy to look back and imagine an alternative that would have been obstacle-free, but that is neither realistic nor helpful. As Gandalf observed in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit: “There are no safe paths in this part of the […]
Joy Comes in the Morning . . .
One of the darkest nights of my life happened when I was 21 years old and a junior in college. I had recently experienced something incredibly traumatic, but I was trying to hold it together and press on. After a brief respite at my parents’ house, I was proceeding as if nothing had happened: going […]