Wait for Me

by Tia Louise

I guess sometimes love makes you forget things can get better. I guess he didn’t see a bend in the road up ahead. I guess he only saw a straight line leading deeper and deeper into black. My daddy was the star of his high school football team… but Life threw him a pass he couldn’t catch with Momma’s death. Our world changed forever that winter.

I’ve learned love is a tornado, destructive and fierce and powerful. It’s also a butterfly, soft, gentle, beautiful. But to get to the butterfly, you must go through the tornado. Love has to change you. You have to grow, and it’s difficult and life-altering and scary and lonely… but coming out on the other side, we’ve spread our wings.

Family doesn’t stop going just because you can’t see it. Family is something that is unbreakable, forever. It’s in the trees, stretching up to the heavens. It’s tradition and laughter and love.