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My Sunshine: A Meditation

This March (2004) is the third anniversary of Ed’s near fatal car accident. Each morning he thanks God for the new day, and each night he goes to sleep to the words of You are my sunshine. That’s the song I sang to him over and over in the hospital when I had run out of words. You’ll never know Dear, how much I love you, and then the prayer, Please don’t take my sunshine away. I knew I was not the only one praying that prayer. Thousands of people all over the world were praying for Ed, but the one he heard every day was the one sung by my voice, the one accompanied by my hand on his forehead.

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