Chris' Christian Blog

July 21, 2021

"Prompt: Tell about a time you’ve been hurt and how God has brought you towards forgiveness."

I was very unpopular when I was young. I lived in a house with no running water. We took sponge baths but were not clean and the other kids let us know it. The school system itself cheated me out of graduating high school and I was deeply hurt. God taught me that being angry at another person is like taking cyanide and expecting them to die, Anger only hurts me.

Today cruising through a corner of galactic space on a shuttle run, I encounter a star named (71) who writes an article to his wife Mitzi. It touched my heart because my sister's nickname was "Mitzy." She died of SIDS in 1974. So I'm honoring both Mitzy and Mitzi today. Write about love.

I had a sister named Mitzy. We weren't sure of the spelling of Mitzi, so we spelled it with a y. Her real name was Helen Michelle. She was named after my neighbor, Helen Colvin, now deceased. Mitzy followed me every where. She was my little buddy. If I had ever stopped suddenly she would have ran into me because she was always with me. She died of SIDS at 18 months old. When died part of me died with her. I loved that child with all my heart.