365 days have passed since I crash landed at the bottom of the very slippery slope that I was climbing.  I landed right on my butt, and let me tell you, it hurt.  I expended so much energy trying to do wrong.  I was exhausted before I ever fell.  But the fall…it knocked the wind right out of me. At the top of the slope was the prize.  The thing that I desired most.  A family to call my own.  The opportunity to carve out my little piece of heaven in this world.  A place to belong and feel desired.  A place to feel chosen.  But I went about it…