My Classmates Teased Me for Being a Pastor’s Daughter Until My Graduation Speech Changed Everything

visible, but present, available when you needed to reach for it.

One night toward the end of eighth grade I looked at him across the dinner table and said, “What if one day I get tired of being the bigger person?”

He leaned back in his chair and considered me with the serious attention he gave to questions that deserved it.

“Then that just means your continue reading …