Surpassing Peace: Our Circumstances are Roadblocks, Peace is Our Rescue

"Go home, you did enough."

I looked at him as my adrenalin rose up. I spoke, "Oh no, that is not how this goes. We came to fight. You are going to fight from where you are, and I am going to fight on my knees over there. I will not leave you." He cried and turned away. I walked away.

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They took me in with him. I was his voice because he no longer had one. It felt so cold, strange, and eerily quiet in there. I had to sign his papers there in that place. I felt I was signing him off. Gut-wr...