We Hope for Better Things

by Erin Bartels

When you’re busy living life, everything’s a blur. It’s not until you get to be my age and you’ve got nothing more to do than think that you start to see it for what it was.”

There’s no one right path that if you make the wrong choice you’re sunk. Whatever you choose to do, God can use that. Life is always a winding path. It’s only in retrospect that it appears to be a straight and inevitable one.”

“Real romance happens when you least expect it. That’s what makes it romantic.

“You get to my age and you wish you had a chance to step back to see the whole, to see what you’ve made of your life and what you’ve made of theirs, to see if you’ve honored their memories or redeemed their faults. But you never can. Time never stops and allows you to know anything.” Her eyes shimmered with unshed tears.