Each of us is free to choose how we navigate the path of our lives. I laughed at the grasshoppers jumping on the path this morning. I'm glad to be grown and unafraid of them. I saw how the disagreements I have with another person are nothing more than grasshoppers exploding in the grass ahead of our shared footsteps. The child in our hearts becomes afraid, not recognizing that the exploding grasshoppers we face are simply jumping out of our way.
Love can conquer our fear.
We can choose to walk shoulder to shoulder with gratitude, as our relationship echoes and heals and revives and transforms us. We've been given the gift of the path to walk. It is the walking together that carries us back home.