Before We Were Yours

by Lisa Wingate

In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don’t intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

We’re just like other families. Every available avenue is paved with guilt, lined with pain, and pockmarked with shame.

One of the best things a father can do for his daughter is let her know that she has met his expectations.

I want a pain I understand instead of the one I don’t. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and

Don’t borrow trouble from round the bend,

It’s funny how what you’re used to seems like it’s right even if it’s bad.

“What the mind don’t ’member, the heart still know. Love, the strongest thang of all. Stronger than all the rest.

Sometimes the oldest secrets is the worst of all.