But we should wait until it freezes!
Better yet, I think I’ll stick to the ground ~Footprints in the Sand~
The last six years I had endured a lot of hardships, not that my struggles are worse than yours. Not the worse, not the least, not even close to, nonetheless they were very hard to have gone through them. But during the time I was going through what I was going through, not until I got out of that storm, and the earthquake and the afterschocks, then came the tsunami, and hurricanes bringing floods so when the twin twisters hit I prayed one would take me to a far off land. But just like Dorothy, I would have wanted those ruby red slippers to come back home. When I finally did come home, as I watched my life flash in front of me. Well I am pretty good journaling so I could picture as I was writing almost every detail I could briefly describe. Some things I remembered others I wish I hadn’t, I cried, I smiled because you can’t laugh by yourself. I had to prove my insanity I mean that I am sane. I took a hard look at what I was writing about. I realized, “this was MY life?” No wonder I had to prove I wasn’t insane. Then I thought well was it a good thing or a bad thing. Because what I just read, any sane person would have thought you were insane for allowing your life to go there. Legally, I am not insane but boy had I been. Thank God I could’ve plead insane. My point being is that could it possibly have been temporary insanity? I haven’t seen a professional about this and I’ll get to that in a bit. But let me just list a few of the things I was faced with:
My grandmother died, the father of my children deported, my children victims of bullying, adjusting to their dad not being there while I fight the school and the district for my children being bullied, maintaining a job, my son running away, my best friend passing, my house getting raided, my locks changed, my children not coming home, family betrayed me, boyfriend betrays me, my physician of ten years retires…
This was just the beginning without details of what really happened. What could possibly get worse than that you ask?
Family betrayed me by calling CPS on top of what I was already going through but wait, remember my doctor left me too. Hence, not seeking professional help. And I go and get pregnant twice. The father turns out to be a woman beater, but shows the world differently while making me to look as if I was crazy. Well that’s what I am sorting out. I had to make decisions based on my state of mind, the depth of the situation, the consequences I didn’t think of as short-term rather for long-term, and considering all involved with lack of judgement for myself passed judgement on me . The doors I walked through, the roads I passed, chances I took, the power of prayer and the faith I had in them is what kept my children healthy, safe, loved and have been given opportunities endless to them.
I don’t know any one in their right mind go through something like this and not be dead because she killed herself or having him killed for just being him. Or having a nervous breakdown, or driven and gotten lost in drugs on the streets. In case I forgot to mention, I was homeless. Up there along the lines of house being raided and locks being changed. From 2012 – 2018, my life was a living hell and I took the devil by the horns and rode him until he couldn’t have me ride him no more.
The bitter/sweet of that is more sweet than bitter. Even though I had to endure ….. I have no words to what I went through. I could only share what the experience was like. Regardless, I know given the circumstances in every situation I made the decisions with the best interest of them, for their well-being, and not once for my selfish need of anything. What I needed was to keep what God gave to me as gifts to protect at all cost.
In 2014 a month shy of my second daughter’s first birthday, I lost a brother in a fatal accident. Six months later, my cousin who are up with us so he was like a brother passed after years of alcoholism. And just recently, the one who got deported, since 2017 we have not heard a word from or about him. He was deported to El Salvador. And last year in December, his mother just passed away. The only four people who actually had my back and tried to help were now in heaven with my grandmother. That’s why that poem kept me to believe that God had to have been carrying me and my grandmother had my wings in case I flew out of his hands because the devil had a good grip on me. Every blink of an eye something else was falling over shoulders adding to the burdens, the nightmares, the tears, the madness, the chaos of a world I called my life
The Lord replied, my previous child, I love you and would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.
~Footprints in the Sand~ Author Unknown