The day I learned to pray again

letters from the front

I made some big vows to our little one in those first wild moments of his life, when he was purple and slimy and learning to breathe. In those moments, I was aware only of a flood of energy in my body, which felt as if it had sprung from the deepest parts of my being, and words and tears and snot poured out of my body and into my PPE mask.

Unlike some i…