I guess a few words
need to be said about a terrible thing I saw the other day. It was a car
accident where two men were trapped and one lady got out ok. The car was upside
down. I saw a lot of blood and people that were very scared. I looked after the
lady, her name was Jonti, we had different gods but it didn’t matter. I held
her for a long time and told her it would be ok. I promised her because I had
seen the guys were breathing and sort of awake. I used my strength as a mummy,
I used my strength as a fellow woman, I used my strength as a human who somehow
knew how to hold her while the scene unfolded in front of us. Her husband and
friend were trapped, the people cut the car apart to get them out. We prayed.
She heard me. She screamed, I whispered. God turned up, or perhaps was always there inside us all,
providing more proof to me that there is so much drive within each human to
survive no matter what we all believe. This woman needed me for that hour and a
half it took to get the men out of the wreck. I needed her. I took a beeline
for her because there only seemed to be men turning up at the scene. I was in
such awe of the paramedics and rescuers. I was so proud of my calm man, keeping
everyone talking, checking and cross checking, and remembering all the little
details at the end like picking up their bags and things from the wreck. There
was so much blood.
Women, at times of
extreme stress, need women. Think childbirth, think of the intensity of
grief. She was in such fear. I
thought of her mother, I thought of the babies she will have one day. I thanked
God her beautiful face hadn’t received any marks when the men had so much blood
and cuts. They got them out alive. It was my Easter miracle. Rolling away a
stone from a tomb? Survival! Life instead of death!
Did we really have
different gods? Or is god inside us all? as the human spirit? as love? Because
at the end of each day what matters? It’s the love we have for each other that
matters the most. It’s the love in the instant decision I took to love a human being
in pain. It’s the love in the everyday where I’m now able to look at my loved
one’s face. I work a whole lot now because my kids dad won’t or can’t pay child
support money. I work and I finish my degree so hopefully one day I can write
for a living. What I really want is this: My babies safe, my beautiful man in
my arms and love all around. I have a huge love to give and I’m so grateful
that those people who I will never see again will live on.
Today’s revelation:
Love is best. As if that’s a revelation! We all already know this, it’s just a
moment to reflect on why.
