" If it were up to me..." and then the words pound, desperate and hard, "I'd write this story differently."...

"Just that maybe... maybe you don't want to change the story, because you don't know what a different ending holds."

The words I choked out that dying, ending day, echo. Pierce. There's a reason I am not writing the story and God is. He knows how it all works out, where it all leads, what it all means.

I don't. "

― Ann Voskamp , One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are