If you trip or fall, I’ll always be there.

This phrase has so much meaning to me, in more ways than I can express.

It’s not really about anyone else but what I’ve been through.

My sister, with MS, sometimes needing assistance of various kinds, my father losing his ability to walk, my kids, sometimes making choices that throw most of us off. Residents or loved ones that just have to take life much slower. Even those that seem to have it altogether, even collapse at times.

It is born of experience.

I’ve known this myself.

I’ve know declension.

I’ve also known ascension.

I’ve lost the ability to judge.

I’ve also lost the ability to not be hopeful.

It’s a bittersweet place to live.

Reality and hope always conflicting like oil and water.

Turn the mirror on yourself.

If you haven’t been there, to the deep, this won’t make any sense and if you have, you understand and stand together with me. Some of you may be somewhere in between and I promise, if this is true, you’ll be here soon, hopefully.

It’s a very fulfilling place to be, especially when you do the personal work.

While it still hurts, a lot, at times, you’ll be able to recover from the difficult moments or situations a lot quicker, generating peace, at the very least, for yourself.

Hopefully and often this will also spill out onto others.

Keep going!

He works things all together…

He parts the waters…

And often through the the most difficult of imaginings.