"Hey, how's your day? Is everything going fine?"
It was a text message that brought back a sense of deja vu. Some years back, while I was feeling sad, having a stomachache and the cat was sick, there was another sms that was came that same manner, only much more touching.
I laughed as we exchanged a few more texts and I fell asleep happily soon after.
In For One More Day, Mitch Albom wrote about Charley Benetto who was at his end of his wits. He was about to visit his childhood home to end his life, until he had a flashback, spending one final day with his dead mother. Together with his mother, he went back in time to see how his mother never stopped loving him and his sister, despite him trying to gain validation from an absent dad. The sections "Times I did not stand up for my mother" vs "Times My mother stood up for me" was bittersweet for me as well. In the end, Charley did not want to die any more, for he discovered how much his life was valued by being loved.
Know the ones who love you, for even when love cannot change circumstances, it can still lift you out of your darkest pits.
For the thief (devil) comes to destroy, but Jesus came that we may have life, and have it abundantly (John 10:10).
