A terrible thing.

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.