It's true what they say about how quickly the things that are so utterly wrong and upside down become "normal". Because they have to. Because if you don't soften towards them, if you can't learn to breathe through it, if you fight so hard in disbelief about what is happening, you will suffocate. You will become a shell of what you once were, something even worse than the very thing you were fighting. So you go on, you live your life, and you try to meld two very conflicting ideas in your heart: the knowledge that it shouldn't be this way, that this is still so wrong, so backwards, and so hard with the idea that this is YOUR beautiful life andsomehowyou continue to fall a little more in love with it every day.
2013, you were brutal, but you were beautiful too. Some would say, YOU WERE BRUTIFUL!
So, here is to a happy and healthy 2014 {WOW! First time writing that and it felt weird!}! I'm not huge on the whole resolution thing, but this year I resolve to focus on the health of myself and my family. Physical health, emotional health, and spiritual health, because as my wise friend Jenna says, when you have your health, you have it all. {and sometimes working on your emotional health means eating some Ben and Jerry's, haha!}
Thank you for being there friends and for continuing to be there as we wind our way down this crazy road {radiation starts this month! ahhh!}. Much love to you all in 2014!
