There were events in your life that you didn’t think you could survive…and weren’t sure you wanted to.

Things happened that were so painful, you’d rather die of them than to go on living with the agony of surviving.

Sayre knew what that was like. She remembered what it felt like to have a heartache so severe she wanted to die. Nothing short of death would relieve the pain.

But the survival instinct is a miraculous thing.

One’s heart goes on beating even after the will to live is lost.

One takes another breath even when the desire to breathe has been crushed.

One lives on.

© White Hot, Sandra Brown