Where the Lost Wander

by Amy Harmon

“Put your energy into rising above the things you can’t change,

Keep your mind right. And everything will work out for the best.” “Even if there’s a lot of pain along the way?”

“Especially if there’s pain alo...

It is impossible to explain to someone who is surrounded by their own language and people just how lonely it is to not understand and to not be understood.

“That’s what marriage is. It’s shelter. It’s sustenance. It’s warmth. It’s finding rest in each other. It’s telling someone, You matter most.

Are you angry with the bird because he can fly, or angry with the horse for her beauty, or angry with the bear because he has fearsome teeth and claws? Because he’s bigger than you are? Stronger too? Destroying all the things you hate won’t change any of that. You still won’t be a bear or a bird or a horse. Hating men won’t make you a man. Hating your womb or your breasts or your own weakness won’t make those things go away. Hating never fixed anything.

I realize now that life is just a continual parting of the ways, some more painful than others.