Futile Wishing

Don't you wish we could learn our lessons without all the anguish? And that our children would never have to be affected?

When distance is an issue, all we have is words to offer comfort and it is then we are forced to accept the fact that the hardest language to learn may yet be the most inadequate.

We're happy. What do we have? Yippee! Yahoo! And the like... Come on. Pathetic.

When things go horribly, life-changingly wrong? I'm sorry. I don't know what to say.

Because we don't! It's awful and it's heartbreaking enough to know the closest person in the world to you is hurting something awful and there's nothing you can do.

Of course, I know I can pray. I am so thankful that God doesn't just hear my words. He knows my heart and understands my tears.

Because all too often lately I find myself completely and absolutely without words.