Since before any of us were born, God planned for us to share our lives together. He knew exactly how our strengths and weaknesses would balance one another and the depth of love, understanding and commitment We would learn to feel. He knew the richness, of our separate characters would developed through hard times and that mutual trust and respect would be born as a result of overcoming the trials together. He knew we would need each other…to hug…to help…to teach…to serve…to love…

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lighting. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.-- Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895, From a speech delivered Aug. 3, 1857.