When there's nothing left but the pain...

[Daniel Meyer]

I like to think I'm prepared for anything. I like to think nothing phases me. I like to think, "I can take it."

Occasionally I'm proved wrong.

http://lifeisaroad.com/blog/2009/09/14/and-then-there-was-pain/

[FLAVALK]

Good story. I have a son, or did, that is your sister. You describe the call and the dream well.

[GreenLantern57]

My brother, several cousins.
Hell, my dad! Last call was from Police Chaplin. Father had died and they were looking for relatives. Buried him at his family's plot in Clayton NM.
I feel ya!

[Black Dog]

I've gotten that call numerous times...  Yer right, it's never good, sometimes worse than others...

After the call, when sleep is all but impossible, I wonder...  Why am I the one to get the call, and how did it turn out that I was not the one dialing?

I hope you find some peace.

Black Dog

[John Schmidt]

At 3:30a.m., a call from my daughter, her husband was in a car accident. Result...killed him and one of their daughters...my granddaughter. She would have been 28 next month, you never forget.

[stormrider]

Daniel, thanks for sharing. What is her name if you don't mind sharing. First name is good enough. I'd like to pray for her. I was her once. Mayber not as "lost" but enough that it wasn't me. A prayer and a step is all it took to change me. So, I'd like to call upon our maker in her behalf.

Steve

[mattfidaho]

As always very well written, you always have a way of making me think "I should have wrote that" 

I am very familiar with the night ride to nowhere. 

hope all is well.

[Daniel Meyer]

...What is her name if you don't mind sharing. First name is good enough....

Diane.

[Michael K (Az.)]

Yet, sometimes there's a little more before "nothing left" has to set in.

[SteveL]

There for the Grace of God go I.

Thank you for the beautiful writing. ...and the very touching very personal thoughts.

Prayer for Diane, and all of the others

[stormrider]

Just said a prayer. Thanks for sharing with us. I believe.