My People, the Amish

I wrote a note to my father-in-law and my parents to explain why we were leaving the Amish. I shook uncontrollably and cried bitterly. When I finished, I looked at the note. It didn't make sense so I tore it up. I wrote a second note and then a third. I threw all of them away. With a gripping sorrow in my heart, I knew that anything I wrote wouldn't make sense to those we were leaving behind. I knew the immense hurt and pain I would bring my dad and mom again. And I knew that this would be the last time I would leave the Amish and I would never return.