I would think about that terrible time at our house, and I’d ask myself, “What have I done? You know, all I’ve done is try.” And then one day another lightbulb went off: “All I’ve done is try?” That’s exactly what I’ve done! I’ve tried too hard. That’s my fault in this. I’ve tried too hard and too much. When Alma blew up, she was pushing against those efforts from my husband and me. Why all those years did we keep trying to take her on and make her see reason, or see things the way we did? So I came to see what happened that night in an entirely different light, and it changed the way I saw
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