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That smile. <\/em>If only I could see that smile again…<\/em><\/p>\n

The colorless walls of the hospital waiting room closed in on me as I watched the minute hand creep around the clock. Three hours down. Two more to go. Oh Lord, this is torture, <\/em>I thought.<\/p>\n

I leaned forward on the stiff couch in the corner of the room and leafed through the dog-eared, coffee-stained magazines that littered a table. Desperate for a distraction. Anything to take my mind off my husband, Myles, undergoing his third heart surgery in less than two years.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t just Myles. Another loved one haunted my thoughts. I flashed back to the day six years ago when our daughter Linda\u2019s life came to a tragic, inevitable end.<\/p>\n

I had been in a hospital just like this one. Those same suffocating beige walls closing in on me. The soulless beeping of the heart monitors in the ICU. And Linda lying there helpless, a swelling the size of a tennis ball on the back of her head. Clumps of dried blood still clinging to her scalp.<\/p>\n

The official cause of death was head trauma, but Myles and I knew the truth. She had passed out and fallen down the stairs, drunk before breakfast.<\/p>\n

If I closed my eyes, if I pushed my memory, I could still see Linda as a happy girl. She had a smile that could make the grumpiest person smile too, like the sun bursting through the clouds. It was hard to pinpoint exactly when that smile began to disappear.<\/p>\n

Linda started drinking in high school, maybe to fit in, maybe out of boredom or insecurity, maybe because of me and my history. I\u2019d never know. She dropped out of college and went to rehab. One year later, she was carrying a thermos of vodka to work, \u201cjust in case.\u201d No recovery program\u2014not even some time in prison\u2014was enough to divert her from that dark, descending path she was on.<\/p>\n

If anyone could understand where that path led, it was me. I knew those depths all too well. I\u2019d been sober since Linda was a baby, but I\u2019d never hid my alcoholism from her. I told her what it was like and how I\u2019d struggled until she was born. She\u2019d even gone to AA meetings with me.<\/p>\n

But my salvation was not hers. The program just didn\u2019t take. By age 40, Linda\u2019s liver was failing, and I\u2019d stopped keeping count of the number of blood transfusions she\u2019d had, the number of detoxes and rehabs.<\/p>\n

\u201cMama, I\u2019m gonna get clean,\u201d Linda promised me a year before she died. \u201cYou wait and see. I\u2019m going to be happy again.\u201d<\/p>\n

I hugged her tight. \u201cOkay, baby girl,\u201d I whispered, wishing I could believe her, wishing I could give her the desire to stop drinking.<\/p>\n

The call I\u2019d long dreaded finally came. Linda was in a coma. \u201cThere\u2019s too much alcohol in her system,\u201d the doctor said. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t operate even if it would help….\u201d<\/p>\n

My beautiful, troubled daughter. Gone forever at age 45.<\/p>\n

I stood up from the waiting-room couch and began pacing, as if I could walk away from my memories. I twisted my hands together, wringing them. Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a smaller room connected to the waiting area.<\/p>\n

I wandered toward it and found myself in a cramped, stuffy nook with even more magazines. One stood out. It practically shone\u2014a bright yellow cover featuring lemon pie, my favorite dessert. \u201cSpring Is Coming,\u201d the headline proclaimed, though sunny days were months away.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I took a closer look. An issue of Southern Living <\/em>magazine from five years before. But it looked brand-new! No creases, no stains, no wear at all, apparently.<\/p>\n

It was so strangely well preserved that I couldn\u2019t resist flipping through, pausing now and again to peruse a recipe. I found an article about Foley, Alabama, a city close to where Linda once lived.<\/p>\n

All at once time stopped; the waiting room walls receded. It was just me and the magazine in my hands. I stared at an unmistakable image. There, on page 32, in one of the photos from around town, was a young woman, beaming as if lit from within.<\/p>\n

That smile. Those eyes, so full of life. Of love. Linda. She looked happy. Joyous. Free from the pain that clouded her life. I held the magazine to my chest, dazed, yet comforted.<\/p>\n

Myles got through his surgery just fine. I contacted Southern Living. <\/em>They had never gotten Linda\u2019s name. They weren\u2019t sure when the photo was taken, or what the circumstances were. They couldn\u2019t explain how a mint copy would show up after six years in a hospital waiting room.<\/p>\n

They did, however, send me a copy of the photograph. Every time I look at it, I take it as a reminder of the healing that awaits us all.<\/p>\n

Download your FREE ebook, Mysterious Ways: 9 Inspiring Stories that Show Evidence of God’s Love and God’s Grace<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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