The Long Way Home

by Karen McQuestion

I have faith that when the time is right I’ll find what I’m really meant to do with my life, and it will all come together for me. For now, this is good.”

“Do the thing you long to do and become the person you’re destined to be.”

Every day, he tried to do at least one nice thing for someone else, a habit he’d started in college. He felt that if everyone did it, the world

would be a better place and that he was obligated to lead by example.

“Everyone has something. You’re not alone here. Having problems is something all people have.”

She wondered at how she could have taken his love for granted in recent years. When you pared away the stuff of life—the obligations, the irritations, the illnesses, and pain—this connection, this love, was all that really mattered. It was trite, a platitude cross-stitched and framed in the gift shop at Cracker Barrel, but that didn’t make it any less true.