LOVE.

March 13, 2007

LOVE

Paramedics see a thousand kinds of suffering—but what really wrecks you isn’t the blood or the brokenness. It’s the emotion that shows up in the periphery. This story isn’t about a patient. It’s about his son. In the span of twenty minutes, I watched that young man live through every human emotion on the spectrum—denial, rage, grief, panic, and finally, love. The kind of love that doesn’t know how to act, doesn’t have the words, and doesn’t care who’s watching. That night reminded me: love doesn’t need to be pretty. It just needs to be present.