by Rhonda Erickson

Created on: September 04, 2007   Last Updated: June 25, 2008

"The Mirror"s Full Circle"

*I know this is rather long, but I hope at least a few will read it to the end. It is a true story about real people, and a chain of events that change their lives, with a powerful and message filled ending. I am currently attempting my first novel, and this is the condensed version. My interest is in writing Christian based stories, with God directed inspirational messages. My plan is to follow this one with two more in a series about the life of the main character Kadence Stone. "A Mother's Story", about the death of her son, and "Falling Where Angels Fear to Tread", about a stumble she has away from her faith. I would love any comments you have about this. Please visit my about me page.

It was 5:00 in the morning on March 10, 1998, ten days before my 40th birthday. I was standing in the bathroom attempting to put on my makeup and get ready for work. I gazed in the mirror at the red blotchy face and teary grief burdened eyes that blankly stared back at me. They were those of a stranger, someone I vaguely recognized but did not know. I couldn't stop thinking about what had happened the evening before. I never knew that kind of pain and heart ache could be dealt in a single blow. My chest felt like it was exploding and no amount of oxygen I managed to suck in, between the convulsive sobbing would help relieve it. My hands wouldn't stop shaking, and there wasn't enough make up in the world anyway that could with stand the water fall of tears that for the last ten hours had been flowing down my cheeks uncontrollable. No concealer heavy enough to hide red and swollen eyes after the sleepless night spent reliving, but still not accepting of the of events leading up to the night mare that was now my life.

No one could have prepared me for the heart stopping revelation I accidentally stumbled upon that evening on my way home from work. Several months before this, my husband Nathan had changed jobs and was now working for a construction company in Dallas. He had worked for eleven years on a dairy farm owned by our best friends, Robert and Linda Montgomery, who were currently in the process of a nasty divorce. Nathan said Robert was livid about the settlement demands his wife had requested, was never in a good mood, and was doing everything he could to make her life miserable. The feisty little female lawyer that Linda hired had a reputation as being a "man hater", and using cut throat precision to help her women clients come out on the better

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