Faithit

Mama, I can see that you're tired. There are tears in your eyes and every now and then a tear rolls down your cheek. I'm sorry mama but I feel really strange in this new world. I miss home. I miss always being close to you.

"I felt isolated—people would stare at us and make rude comments."

Someday, our windows won’t have tiny fingerprints covering every square inch of their glass. Someday, the trash won’t fill so quickly, and the fridge won’t empty so fast & dishwasher won’t need ran so often, and the hamper won’t always be overflowing.

“We’re the salt and the light and if we lose our saltiness, what good are we?” she said.

I knew some would think I slept around, that I was promiscuous. I knew that girls would talk and boys would listen, but I still kept my baby.

"Marriage is found in the toughest spots in life—even the bathroom."

"Everything about her body language was screaming STOP…but he wasn’t listening. 'You should teach her some manners,' he scolded me."

We all forgot that even for kids, life gets too much sometimes. And even they need a break from it all.