Songs from the Heart – I Can Only Imagine
Music whispered in the background as I held my mother’s hand. Her breathing came in rattled spurts, laboring in between longer breaks. When would her body give in? My sister caressed Mom’s other hand. My brother and sister-in-law stood at the end of the bed. We...
Songs from the Heart – Be Still
I drank my water and stretched out on the mat, letting the sweat drip from my weary body. I worked hard in the last hour to make it to this moment—my time of peace. The intense heat threatened to consume me. I breathed in and out slowly. “Lay still,” the instructor...