For a short moment in time we are teenagers surrounded by friends and family at a small church in a small, dusty and beloved West Texas town.
For a short moment in time we are young adults facing monumental decisions but not facing them alone because as you tell me on a daily basis, we will always have one another.
For a short moment in time we are young, tired parents with an active 3-year old whose covered in chicken pox and a baby on the way.
For a short moment in time we broke one another so badly that its hard to imagine there's enough glue in the world to hold the pieces of our life together.
For a short moment in time we are waving goodbye to our home, our safe place but also our demons and headed east to a new home and a new way of life.
For a short moment in time we are young parents who scrimped and saved and took a wide eyed 5 year old and a hyper 8 year old to Walt Disney World for a vacation that would stay in our memories and provide joy and comfort to us for many years to come.
For a short moment in time our lives are crazy with work, two active kids whom we spend hours each week taxing to cheerleading, basketball, cub scouts, parties, dances, PTA, school and everywhere in between.
For a short moment in we are beaming with pride as we drop our once hyper 8 year old, now high school graduate, off at college realizing that leaving our safe place all those years ago was the right decision.
For a short moment in time we are standing in a room, listening to machines and doctors, praying for one more day.
For a short moment in time we forget about medicine, doctors, nurses, and cheer our cheerleader as she leaves high school behind and starts a new adventure at a new school in a new town.
For a short moment in time as we pray for more days as we realize how precious yet short our time on earth really is.
For a short moment in time we are in a room filled with love, heartache and tears while all the moments in time we've shared together fill my mind and make goodbye even harder.
At that moment, on July 13th, 2016 at 11:36 AM, short moments in time stop and are replaced with long moments of grief, heartbreak, tears and a longing that can't be put into words.
