Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.
You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.
Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

