(For the girl I lit the candles for)

Rich Mullins’ song Elijah has these poignant lyrics – This life has shown me how we’re mended and how we’re torn, And how it’s ok to be lonely as long as you’re free. 

How true, painful, and wonderful those words have played out for me.  That freedom is priceless and what could I have adequately traded it for?  Even the loneliness had its benefits, the embracing of such to convert it to solitude.

On the most part, I was true to myself, spoke my mind, held fast to what I believed and felt, everywhere I roamed.  

Very costly at times, but it would have been more costly not to have done it this way.