Stand
I have started many times to sit down and write this entry. I have needed to write but as each day has come and gone, I have failed to get the task done. The problem has been my heart has not been in it. Even my heart has needed to write longing to purge my soul and to lift my spirit but my mind has just not been able to put thoughts to paper. That is until now…… Tonight was a night to celebrate, to get back into the game of life, out of the shadows, and into the graceful movements of life’s daily dance. I could feel the magic surrounding us, the excitement building and the feeling of life beginning to spring forth hope again. After eight months of living in the desert, traveling from one mirage to another… a spring with real water, real hope and a new beginning actually sprang up from out of the dry sand. For months life felt as if we had landed in the sands of destitute and hopelessness. In the long darkness of night when rest was welcome but not found we liste