He said that I needed to live fiercely. He expressed that he wanted me to be brave. I had thought then that this was false since I had always been afraid of many things. But he had repeatedly told me that I had not known the full measure of my strength. I had laughed silently at those words.
Then I got married and had children of my own. He asked me one day if I had found my strength. I said “I never sleep when my children are sick, I never cease to pray for their safety, I never let a da