SOTD – MY DAUGHTER WAS THRILLED TO HOLD HER NEWBORN SISTER, UNTIL SHE WHISPERED ONE WORD THAT SHOOK ME TO MY CORE!

Sometimes, the most heroic act a child can perform is simply surviving long enough to tell the truth. Jaden had stopped keeping the secrets, and in doing so, he had given us both a chance to finally breathe. Our home was no longer a place of hidden corners and muffled voices; it was a place where the light was allowed to reach every room, and where “the voice” was only ever raised in laughter or a shout from the sidelines of a track.

I looked at my two children now, playing in the yard of our new life. They were no longer keeping secrets. They were building a world where secrets weren’t necessary for survival, and where the only thing they whispered to each other were dreams of the future.