Shifting Sands
Have you ever stood on the beach and walked out thinking the sand was firm only to find it was butter soft, so your feet just melted into it? Shifty sand is a difficult place to stand, and it reminds me greatly of how life can be. One minute your world can seem sweetly secure, and the next moment something entirely unexpected can rip at the very fabric of your life. In those moments where things shatter and you find yourself suffocating in a cloud of rock-bottom dust, it can be lonely. When my babies were born prematurely, I spent
