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The air is cool as I begin my walk down my street. My chocolate lab, Hazel pulls me with urgency. The first part of the walk all I can focus on is holding onto Hazy. A squirrel here and a squirrel there.<\/p>\n

On the way back, she settles into a slow pace and my mind begins to wander.<\/p>\n

I think of my faith. How strongly I have always believed that everything happens for a reason. M whole life I was able to embrace this.<\/p>\n

In divorce I was not. At least not initially. I have often wondered why I could not. Why I turned temporarily bitter for the first time in my life. <\/p>\n

Tonight as Hazel finally tires of squirrel hunting – I realize why. <\/p>\n

While I was growing up my family was my everything. When I got older they remained my everything. Then as we all built our own families we had a bigger, more wonderful everything. <\/p>\n

My family is what made everything okay when the hard stuff of life happened. It was the constant and undeniable feeling of loving and being loved.<\/p>\n

Somewhere along the way, I hadn’t realized that my husband had become my family. He was not just the boy I met in college, the young man I married while we tried to figure out life – he had become my family.<\/p>\n

It was not something that I could understand. A family member no longer seeing my value. No longer being capable of the constant and undeniable feeling of loving and being loved.<\/p>\n

So faith temporarily evaded me while bitterness snuck in. <\/p>\n

Only my faith returned reminding me that I still had my family – that essential companion to faith. The ones who have always been everything and who have always gifted me the constant and undeniable feeling of loving and being loved.
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