A Year Later
For the past year while going to work, I have driven passed a trailer with writing on the side. In black spray paint there are the words, "Never Give Up." I don't know how long it's been there. I only started noticing it after Josh died. The first time it caught my eye, I stopped and thought, "Wow, Josh you are speaking right to me." Today as I passed, it occurred to me that time was passing quickly. For all I know, the trailer won't be there tomorrow, so I stopped and took a picture. This is just one of my little Josh symbols over the past year. Another one happened a couple of weeks ago when a young man was painting the posts on my front porch. He had a hard story and was really looking for someone to talk to. Six months earlier he had been in a serious accident where he died three different times. It left him changed. He found he was more emotional and had lost interest in the things that used to hold his attention. As he shared, a bla