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Bearing a child was an act of self-sacrifice. But loving that child, knowing that child inside and out, was the real magic.
The right thing often takes the most courage and the most sacrifice.
“There is nothing in the world that shapes a child more than a mother.”
“But you said yesterday that she was never mine.” He cleared his throat. “She wasn’t. But you were hers. And you will be always.”
We give our children wings, but then they must fly alone.”
I needed the daily assurance that no matter how broken I felt, the sun would still rise. So now I watch the sky to the east each morning as a reminder that life continues, even when it doesn’t look the way we thought it would. Life continues, even when we are powerless over the things that hurt us. Life continues, even when we can’t know the future. God is with us in that sunrise, in that promise of a new day, in that reassurance of a tomorrow.”
The future never looks the way we expect it to, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be beautiful.”
ends could be beautiful, but they were always followed by beginnings.
