I wake from a restless sleep, sounds like someone came up the front steps, it’s just after 1 AM, must be Brian hope he had a good evening, I pray: Lord keep and protect him, I fall back to sleep. It’s 5:30 AM as I come down the stairs there’s a lump on the couch, must be Brian, I remind myself to be extra quite this morning. As I go into my office I can feel the tightening in my chest, I turn on my reading light as my eyes start to water, sit down and pick up my Bible and the tears flow. My Brian is dead and yet I look for him each day. It’s as if he’s just been on a long trip and today is the day he’ll be home. I ask myself why do I look for him and I guess it’s that I believe my time with him isn’t complete. There are so many things he and I were still to do. I have come to learn the true fragility of time.

