there are a whole set of numbers in my head

good numbers

like the day i wed

or the days God gave me children

but there are bad numbers too.

the day my father crashed

the day he died

the day i lost veronica

and the day my daughters told me that they had been abused

the day Jesus died

today we remember His death

all my shadow days fall beneath this one day

when the world went dark

in grief and deliverance