Amina greeted me at 6:35 AM inside the Cardiac Care ward of the CK Hui Heart Centre where she's worked for over five years as a nurse. She was the first of what would be a dozen nurses, RNs, specialists, and doctors doing what they do every day to give people like me better odds at a healthy, longer life.
Everything feels harder. Relationships feel more fragile. Classrooms feel more tense. Communities feel more divided. Even small things seem to carry more weight than they used to.
Isn’t it beautiful that the very first person to whom Jesus chooses to appear is not Pilate, not the chief priest, nor Peter or one of the other men, but to a weeping woman with a dubious past?