Thank you for being with me through thick and thin. For filling me with your love, and guiding me when I was floundering in the dark. For lovinng me for who I am, yet showing me how I can improve myself. For teaching me that I am imperfect, and in that imperfection am I made real. And for loving me anyway.

For giving me all the wonderful things that you have given me every day.
The gifts that I can never hope to repay.

I have a lot to be grateful for. I made a bargain with you. Please, oh please just give me the strength to see my end through. Don't let me regret one more thing in my life, maybe the greatest regret of them all...

Not keeping a promise to you.

Help me see it through.

Its been 5 years since it happened. Something that has remain etched in me. Something that shook me to my core and challenged long held beliefs about humanity.

So many dead, and in the name of something so sacred, so good. It makes me want to weep.

God pardon them for they know not what they do. Show them the path, and light their dark tread with the light of understanding.

To those who passed on that fateful day: You are gone, but never will you be forgotten.May you rest in peace, and find in your heart to pity and forgive.

"All things bright and beautiful,
All Creatures Great and Small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all"