The Sweetness of Forgetting

by Kristin Harmel

“I know things have been hard on you lately. But you never know what will happen tomorrow, or the next day. One day, one week, one month can change everything.”

One’s heart always came out in the baking, and if there was darkness in your soul, there would be bitterness in your pastries too.

She hadn’t realized when she was younger that fate could be decided in a moment, that the smallest decisions could shape your life.

“There is a sign at Auschwitz that says, ‘Work makes you free.’ But the truth was that only death made you free.

Life is a series of opportunities, and you have to have the courage to seize them, before the years pass you by and leave you with nothing but regrets.

For it is only by loving, and having the courage to be loved in return, that you can find God, who exists most of all in your heart.