It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that. - Cheryl Strayed

What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering than to the one about the impossible magic of the Messiah?

She was. She was imperfect. She made mistakes. But she was her best self more often than it’s reasonable for any human to be.

There are some things you can't understand yet. Your life will be a great and continuous unfolding. It's good you've worked hard to resolve childhood issues while in your twenties, but understand that what you resolve will need to be resolved again. And again. You will come to know things that can only be known with the wisdom of age and the grace of years. Most of those things will have to do with forgiveness.