Appetite for Innocence

by Lucinda Berry

Things work best for me when I stick to my routine.

You can’t miss someone you never knew.

I quickly decided there couldn’t be a God because no God who was supposed to love me and had the power to intervene in my life would do nothing to save me. I didn’t have to be scared of going to hell because of my unbelief. I was already there. I lived in it every day.

“We all have our pain and our secrets. None of us get through this life unscathed.