The first three words of a popular book are, “Life is difficult.” Surely truer words were never spoken. We deal with a lot of ‘stuff’ in this life (perhaps another word beginning with ‘s’ comes to mind) – things that break our hearts, bring us to our knees and even sometimes, take a real run at crushing our souls. And even though we might know that there are many ways to interpret such events – many ways to tell the story – nevertheless these things sneak in with all the stealth of a Ninja, threatening to steal away our joy for living.

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