I remember the day I realized that my words that were trying to bring reconciliation and understanding were falling on deaf ears and that the only words coming back at me were fighting words that would never stop until they won, regardless of the truth.

I’ve learned a lot over the years of experiences.  It wasn’t easy but when we can’t settle for manipulation then we are ready to go forward, even if we don’t know where that will lead.

Going forward is looking to the horizon and seeing it is endless and not letting that fact stop you in your shoes.  It is drawing a line in the sand where a boundary should be and being unwilling to submit to the manipulation that used to keep you on the wrong side of it.  It is a measuring rod of what is true and good and right in the life…