Sometimes we must go through the Hell that we have helped create before we realize that Hell is not where we want to be, not where we want to spend any time either here and now or in the eternal hereafter. My marriage was mostly Hell. The flames are easily rekindled.

I discovered the Serenity Prayer soon after I walked away from my unbearable marriage and the insanity that was the relationship. It guides me in all things. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." This is a spiritual law that guides my life, that anchors me and yet gives me wings to fly.