Life Lessons Learned

My faith commands me to take care of those in need, particularly the children. Then in 2008, our nation faced a serious financial crisis. During that crisis, funding for mental health became disrupted, and children suffered. The crushing need to help our children led me to walk across america to tell everyone who would listen about the needs of children with emotional issues, behavioral issues, and developmental disabilities. Little did i know at the outset of my walk that it would become a walk of lifes lessons learned about the beautiful, decent, caring people in our nation. During my walk, my cynicism was replaced with hope, with gratitude, and with renewed faith in mankind. I was renewed spiritually and emotionally by the people i met along my journey. My walk started as a spiritual journey. It was a walk of atonement and a walk of gratitude.