25yearsMLC - 10 yrs Later I File D (pt 5)

[Maybell]

25,

I want to wish you happy anniversary and congratulate you for your commitment and endurance and generous capacity for love. I know all the intense and confusing feelings that have probably been building in your heart as this date approaches -- yours probably a multiple of mine since your "years of service" were more than twice mine. You deserve better than what you got for your loyalty and care and I wish you were getting it. Since you didn't, I'm glad you bring that energy here to bring support and wisdom to people who are in such dire need. He may be the doctor but you're the one who brings healing.

I wish you a big dose of healing of your own today. I wish you many more years of grace and fun and enthusiasm. I wish for you to continue to reap what you've sown with laughter and hugs and an over abundance of friends like the ones in your Divorce Care group.

You are grieving today, and it's right that you should, but I hope that eventually you'll come to see those years as the beginning you needed to build you into a life that is richer than you expected because of the challenges and injustice that you are DEFEATING, and that what comes from today forward is so amazing that you're grateful for the painful, crooked path that you got you there.

((((((((((25)))))))))