A Timely Reminder

I was inspired, and deeply moved by this very honest and heart wrenching account from the blog of Kelle Hampton:

http://www.kellehampton.com/2010/01/nella-cordelia-birth-story.html

Life rarely goes where, or how, we want it to, but it is how we face up to these sudden sharp turns & twists that truly define us. Thank you Kelle (via Cheryl) for this very timely reminder.

And so my prayer is that your story will have involved
some leaving and some coming home,
some summer and some winter,
some roses blooming out like children in a play.

My hope is your story will be
about changing,
about getting something beautiful born inside of you,
about learning to love a woman or a man,
about learning to love a child,
about moving yourself around water,
around mountains,
around friends,
about learning to love others more than we love ourselves,
about learning oneness as a way of understanding God.

We get one story, you and I, and one story alone.

God has established the elements, the setting and the climax and the resolution.
It would be a crime not to venture out, wouldn't it?"

-Donald Miller