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Maggie – Part 1

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Micah 7:8 This is all I can get out right now… Every time I find a receipt, boarding pass, letter, look back through my calendar….anything with a date listed before 3:10pm CST, September 19th 2013, I say to myself, “Maggie was still alive then.” I can’t begin, nor should I try, to tell you how my world collapsed that day. These first two sentences have already started the water works. But maybe it’s therapy for me. “It’s just not fair.” That’s what my husband said to me. “It shouldn’t happen like this.” All true. I was relaxing with friends. We had just come back from a Mets/Giants game. Chris with his infinite luck (yet again) snagged some amazing seats for us. We had come back to an apartment that our friend’s parents had rented for the week. We just had gourmet pizza and laziness was setting in…for me. Someone had just mentioned the difference between the married couples and the single couples. The men were around the table spinning yarns about “man stuffs” and t