Darkness falls on everyone. Like seasons, it comes and goes — some days radiant with hope, light, and awe; others shadowed by trepidation and tinged with hopelessness.
As Forrest Gump reminds us: “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.”
To a degree, Mr. Gump and his mother were right. If we wander through life with little more than a wish and a prayer, choosing confections at random, we’ll taste both sweetness and bitterness. I must admit I have shaken hands with tartness as of late.
