But most recently... I was sitting around on this past Christmas morning, waiting for my kids to get ready to go have lunch with my mom. My heart was already heavy as hell, but I was trying to suck it up and keep on a happy face, for the kids' sake. Then
Bible and a 44 by Ashley McBryde came on Youtube after something else finished playing. I had heard it before and it had not affected me, and I've listened to it since then and it didn't affect me then either. But on that day, with the sadness already in my heart, and between the quiet house, her soulful voice, her lyrics about her father who was obviously very influential for her, before I knew it, there were tears streaming down my face.