Life is strange and unpredictable. Everything is smooth sailing, and then it falls apart. Or everything is bearable until it’s not.

Fear and pain are always around the corner, and none of us is spared the suffering. It could be the angst of watching your child suffer and being unable to help or get through to them. It could be the daily agony of working in a toxic environment or the sudden panic of a health crisis or a breakup…

Sometimes it can seem like we are the target of some sadistic plot. I’m pulled there often and know so well that feeling of being let down:

Universe, were you really intending to mock my dreams all along?

But here’s what I also know. The........

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