Your children get only one childhood. - Regina Brett

It doesn't matter what has happened to you, it matters what you do with what has happened to you. Life is like a poker game. You don't get to choose the cards you are dealt, but it's entirely up to you how to play the hand.

It takes an act of faith. You have to trust that once you use up the good stuff, more good stuff will appear. The well will fill back up.

To do that means you will get messy, because life is messy. Yes, life is a gift, every day of it, but it isn't tied with a bow.