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From Here to Serenity
A Spiritual Guide to Transform Your Life
Chapter 5
Look Before You Leap
“Do the thing you are afraid to do, and the death of fear is certain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of us want someone in our life that we can count on, someone who loves us and will comfort us in time of need.
Sometimes we tend to grab at the first someone who comes along. Conversely we may be too picky and think we may never find that special person. We have a picture in our mind of just what he or she looks like and how our relationship
will be.
“I can’t face the rest of my life alone,” I thought. “I’ve always thought of myself as a wife and mother, and don’t know how to be anything else. I’m divorced, 37 and have three children; who would want to take all that on?” I asked myself.
Despite my depression over the breakup of my marriage to Ted, I worked, took care of my three children and slowly began to establish a social life. I met two remarkable women at the singles groups I attended. We have remained close through the years. When things went wrong, we always had each other to call and talk our troubles through and we still do.
My children and I attended church every Sunday, but convinced everyone there knew we had been abandoned, I felt alienated and conspicuous without my husband by my side. We didn’t fit in at the church anymore, and the Cub Scout family gatherings were even worse. My boys and I sat alone on our blanket at the park trying to act as if we were having a great
time, and the Blue & Gold dinners were a nightmare. My heart ached for my boys as they watched the other boys with their fathers, and I felt embarrassed because everyone knew my husband had left us. …..
Gail Manishor
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