Yes, she has known great love. The kind of love that can only be held with a sort of reverence and awe, for the way that it changed everything about her notions of what was or ever could be. So deep that she names all else worthy, just to have brought her there. And she has known the kind of beauty that stops breath and holds the entire universe in the palm of its hand. For this, despite all the hard and all the ache and all the struggle, she names her life a blessing and herself one of the truly blessed.
