What Do You Have To Say? - Ah, Youth
It was a Saturday morning. My mother called me to come upstairs and I remember waking up so happy and light-hearted because today was the day that Mom and Dad had PROMISED ME that they would take me to see my fiance. I hadn't seen him since Tuesday and had cried day and night since, wondering how he was and wishing I could drive there myself.
I hopped up the steps and my mother was waiting for me at the top of them, wringing her hands and staring straight into my eyes. We stood for several seconds, looking at each other and then I knew...
"I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry, honey," she said as I quickly walked away from her, more frightened than I had ever been in my entire life. I heard someone screaming, "No! No! No!" It was the most pitiful keening I had ever heard. They just kept screaming and crying and gasping for air.
My father ran home from his car dealership next door to our house and took me in his arms. Just then I noticed that the screams had quieted, and I realized that it had been me.
Dad and Mom sat me down and told me what I had already figured out. They explained that the injuries that he sustained from the car accident that he had been in on Tuesday night were so severe that he just couldn't survive them. He had severe brain damage and the Lord took him home to be with Him.
I was in a daze. I went in to shock and even though several of my friends came over to the house to spend the day, much of the rest of that day is a blur.
I do know that I'll always remember being told about it just like it was yesterday. My husband remembers that day just as well. You see, my fiance was his big brother! Can you imagine that? About twenty eight years after that fateful night, he and I started dating and we fell in love and now we're married. We're soul-mates and deeply in love! And we both know that his brother is watching us from heaven, smiling down on us, and happy that we're together.
Thank you Lord for turning a horrible, horrible tragedy for two people into a beautiful love story! We both still love him and always will...but now, we'll just do it together!
