Hoping …
The football world reacts …
NFL player …
CPR …
Yes, I too, witnessed surreal on ESPN last night, when a stadium went silent, when the universe reminded, GAME, when a 24 year old became the sole focus and nothing. else. mattered.
NOTHING.
And, I too, sent a please !! please !! to Jesus for this human being on a playing field, repeating the frantic words whispered to Mom so many years ago … Don’t you leave me, DON’T YOU LEAVE ME ! directed to a someone I’ve never met, edited for his mama.
please. don’t.
And I too, can’t stop thinking about Damar Hamlin this morning, praying he’s ok, wondering what’s next, mesmerized by the fact that this young soul for one, beautifully brief, collective moment, united a nation. The noise, the clutter, the every, single, everything STOPPED.
To care.
To realize.
To acknowledge.
As I go about today, checking and double-checking health updates, I will carry this feeling of complete abandonment with me, hoping this horrific, terrifying, split second in time, will vault us back to where we began.
Where love is incredibly easy, where life, is indeed, a gift.