But for the Grace...

I could share with you a story:

one of death and sadness,

of loss and hardship

but to what purpose, to what end?

Any person who has reached a certain age

has their own stories to tell.

We overcome adversity not by wallowing in  it

but by walking through it

They say: “That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.”

I much prefer, simply

“With pain comes strength.”

The person you knew decades ago is not the person I am now.

I am molded by all who have touched my life;

those who have left, those who have stayed.

All that we experience becomes part of our story,

not only the hardships, but the kindnesses;

and in the end, we are all stories…

how we choose to write ours is up to us.

© Ginny Brannan 2018