161EmiliaI wouldn't call myself a dedicated Christian.Growing up, Sunday service was just the rhythm of life while my father was alive. Later, I had my own children baptized, not out of sudden piety, but because it felt like a box to check in the manual of motherhood.But now, in the sterile silence of the hospital, it felt like I had no one left but Him."Please," I whispered. The word broke apart, swallowed by sobs that stole the air from my lungs.I was crumpled on a pew in the hospital chapel, the air smelling of floor wax and stale incense."Just keep him alive for me," I pleaded, my eyes fixed on the statue of Jesus anchored near theceiling. He looked down with an expression of frozen, wooden empathy.They say the Lord is close to the brokenhearted, but I wondered if a man as sinless as Christ would even bother with the prayers of a killer like me.I didn't deserve His mercy. I knew that. Yet, I was shameless enough to beg for it anyway."I promise I’ll change," I rambled,
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