I know what it's like to lose everything you hold dear. Yet through it all I have learned that the loss of anything, no matter how great, must be balanced with the gain.
I have seen a labor of love turn to love in labor. But I have also seen how that love is born again, and again.
I've seen a time in which familiar ways depart. But I have also seen how that uncertainty gives us opportunity to trust in the hand of God.
I have been to that place where I would stay angry, so that I didn't have to cry. But I have also seen that anger break down from the healing power of a sigh.
I have known both the sacrifice and the preservation of self. And if I've learned anything at all, it is that sacrifice is not the cause of it all.
Sacrifice loses nothing, because it has no expectations. It is born out of love. And love knows no uncertainty, for it has direction and purpose.
