Words on Wednesday 7/28

 This month, [Lissa is the host] for Words for Wednesday. Started by Delores ages ago, it is now hosted by different people each month on various blogs around the world. The aim of Words for Wednesday is to encourage us to write using some or all of the prompts.  Her prompts today are inspired by The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

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    Her fear was like a secret fire burning within her, and she hated it.  Despised it even.  There had been periods of her life when it controlled her.  After a time, however, she would stomp it out and rise up to face it.  Often at great physical risk to herself.

     Now, she went on a garden walk, with the weight of the world on her shoulders and very nearly consumed by the fear of what uncertainties lay ahead.  Her mind raced at times, and she wished ~ prayed even ~ that she could abandon everything unknown for some magic that would cure her.

    Looking back on her life, she had no regrets ... well, almost none.  That last marriage probably should have been a do-over back to the moment she agreed to let him go with her to Texas.  But what could she do now?  Nothing lasted forever and for that, she was grateful that the marriage hadn't.

    The key to happiness she realized, wasn't in only the happy moments.  It was being able to spring back from the bad with a sense of purpose, and with a new respect for the lessons of life.