There are times when a comforting smile or hand makes all the difference. Times when just the right words jump off the page, speaking as if in answer to a prayer we knowingly sent. Times when someone's poetry brings a chuckle or goes deep and dredges up our own truth. I hope that the words in will offer themselves to you in such a fashion. Whatever catches the heart is your truth in that moment. Trust it. Although most of the writing is quite personal, the experience is universal. We are all on this planet as family. We have all had broken hearts, immense losses and times of laughter and beauty. And sooner or later, we discover that all things can be grown into BLESSINGS. --Marcia Beachy