Life’s biggest moments sometimes ask only that we be still and bear witness.
ONE MORNING I answered my phone and heard my sister say, “Sissy, it’s time. The baby’s coming. Can you get here today?”
I suddenly felt afraid. What if something went wrong? My sister is my person, the one I can’t live without. And her children are her life. I don’t pray often, not in words at least. But that morning I did. I whispered, “Dear God, please let my sister be okay. Please let her baby be healthy. And also, if possible, can you be sure she has a girl?”
As I packed, the phone rang again. This time it was my mother. “Honey,” she said, “Grandma’s not doing well. I think you need to come as soon as you can.”
I froze. My grandmother Alice was so fiery that when my grandfather first approached her at a bar and asked, “Excuse me, are you a nurse?” she looked down at her crisp white uniform, then up at him, and answered, “No, Sherlock. I’m a firefighter.” It was love at first fight. They had seven children and 15 grandchildren and had been married for 42 years when he died. She was so full of faith that for the decade and a half I was lost to addiction, she said a rosary for me every single night. She told me she didn’t miss one. My only explanation for how I got better is that Grandma prayed my troubles gone.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة August 2017 من The Oprah Magazine.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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