When we lost everything, we learned an invaluable lesson.

With the last box loaded into the car, I glanced back at the house. It was not ours anymore, and there was a lump in my throat as I climbed into our car. We drove away fully aware of the fact that the journey ahead was unknown, and that this was the first of many steps it would take to ‘start over.’ To my surprise, with every passing minute, that lump in my throat began to disappear. I was...