Tip of the Hat

Thank you, my friends, for helping to keep this journal drama-free since October of 2003.

I've been thinking about this for a while, and the initial responses to my "Old Time Religion" post have reaffirmed what I have appreciated for so long: that my friends community is made up of an amazing group of intelligent, thoughtful, mature individuals.

I've never had a flame war on this journal, never had name-calling, high tempers, or displays of petulance. Any differences of opinion have been respectful and the involved parties try to seek better understanding.

I've been able to raise and discuss any topic, secure in the knowledge that any disagreement will be voiced respectfully (or kept silent).

I appreciate that I can make a post like last night's and know that people of widely divergent beliefs will address it in a way that will illuminate the issues and deepen my own thoughts, not cause needless strife.

This journal, this community, is something I enjoy very much, and it's all thanks to you, my friends.

"Where do the strong go to be weak?"

I'm a strong person.

But there are some days, like this one, when all I want is to go home and sink down into warm, secure embrace of my love and let him be my strength and my shield for a while.

And he's not there, and he's not going to be there. Not today, not tonight, not next week.

Some days I'm so very tired of being strong by myself.