Dear daughters, I'm sorry.

Dearest Colette and Sweet Maelyn, This past Friday something happened. Gay marriage was legalized throughout our nation. While the world tells us this is good and normal, I am here to tell you that it is not. And that I am sorry. I am sorry that you are going to grow up in a world that confuses you. You are going to live in a world where it is near impossible to discern what is true, or even if there is truth. But there is. This world is not a bad place, there is a lot of darkness, but there are also pockets of light and I hope you find them. I wish life were simple. I wish there were just men loving women and women loving men, but this place is not as black and white as we would like it to be. With the addition of the LGBT population we meet a mountain of confusion. On top of that is the reality of the brokenness of so many relationships, whether between a man and a woman or not-divorce, abuse, neglect, poverty, addiction. There are so many other things that can get lost in those larger issues-complacency, lack of communication between spouses, self-absorption, laziness, selfishness, greed, not saying "I love you" to name a few. I don't want to tell you how to think. I want to teach you how to think for yourselves-to be able to see truth. I don't know how I'm going to do that yet, and I know that you are already learning so much from me that I better figure it out soon. But my sweet girls, I pray that you know truth. I'm sorry that this world doesn't. Know truth. It exists. And it is good.