We all suffer from pain and setbacks at one time or another in this life. What happens when trauma and pain seem to plague you from a young age? The choices you make and how you react to your pain determines a lot about the person you will become. Each of us are faced with tough situations, trauma and pain that seem to want to destroy us and our future. Sometimes it takes these events to truly reveal your path and direction for your life. Here you will see a lifetime of struggles and pain, that come to find out, lead to strength, character, and faith. To find your way through these times we tend to want to look for answers and solutions. What if the answer was with you all along? Walk through each day and season of life within these pages and see where it takes you. Discover the hidden love, grace and mercy that will never leave you and that will carry you through each painful event. Find the will to carry on in even the most devastating of circumstances and the place where freedom and peace waits. As we follow along this lifetime you will see that there is only one way out of the darkness. Wendy Lawson is the mother of three children and married to her high school sweetheart. She loves to write and craft in her spare time as well as camping, hiking and kayaking with her family. She spends time with her Husky, Sasha going for walks around their Texas neighborhood She is a paralegal by trade, but in the process of finishing her degree for Psychology and Christian Counseling through Liberty University.