my life in words

As I lived through, what I can only describe as a

nightmare that I couldn't wake up from, I had no

idea that the darkest moments of my life would

ever become a beacon of light for other people's

pain.  NO IDEA.



For me to have known that then, wouldn't have

made the nightmare any less horrible, or made

those darkest moments light.  I know that.



It wasn't in the heat of my battle that I was going

to need to know that my darkest moments were

going to become a beacon of light for other people's

pain.  It was at the end of my battle.  It was when 

I was allowed to wake up from my nightmare.  It

was when I began to journey through my time of

recovery that I would need to know it.  It is for NOW.     ~tf