An Unexpected Journey

As a child you dream the dreams of innocence, of love, of the happily Everafter, of your own beautiful fairytale and how your life will turn out the way you want it to, the way you've always dreamed it would. How could it otherwise? As a child anything is possible when you believe in it enough, even fairy tales. At what age do you lose that innocence? Is it a certain age or at your first broken heart or your first painful earth shattering moment when your faith and matter are tested? When did YOU lose that blind faith or did you? My moment was around the age of 10. My earth shattering moment came out of left field, I never saw it coming. My Parent's split and then their divorce through not only me but my siblings for a loop. We were a happy Church going family one day and literally the next day instead of coming home to sleep in my bed I found myself sleeping in a motel bed, never to see my bed or bedroom again. It was a life changing moment for me, a time when my faith in ...