It takes only a second to be distracted.  Perhaps a phone buzzing, dropping a napkin, or adjusting the radio.  All of a sudden a normal drive through a familiar neighborhood is frozen in time for family members throughout the continent.  A car accident, a young woman bleeding, organs damaged, threat to sight, screaming weeping silent pain from mother, sister, father, siblings, grandmother.

And we pray incessantly.  For life to turn better, for healing, for peace, for acceptance, for strength, for the Presence of the Oneness, the faith of unknown safety and infinite love to be heard throughout our lives–no matter what.  No matter where we are, how our bodies are twisted or giggling, to be eternally hand in hand with the Dear One.