Sometimes life gets hard and messy and just not fun.  Sometimes there's cancer when she's too young and it shouldn't be happening but it is.  Sometimes family doesn't understand that your heart is literally not in the same city, state, or even country as your house and they get mad.  Sometimes boys break hearts, and sometimes girls break hearts.  Sometimes friends call and tell you a secret that no one else can know and the promise that nothing has changed is made.  Sometimes friends just need you there.  Sometimes you don't know what to do, and you cry with them, for them, and then you sit in shared silence.  The silence that says, "I love you, and I'm here in the mess because that's all I know how to do right now, and I have no words to try to fix anything."  So you sit and wait, because you don't know what else to do.

That's the silence I've been in for the last few months.

In that silence though, sometimes there's healing.  Sometimes there's answers.  Love is there always, though.