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Molly
Today at 1:37 PM
Help! Chloe is saying she
wants to die and I’m freaking
out.
Please be by your phone. We hadn’t spoken since yesterday’s kiss. I hadn’t thought of exactly what I’d say yet, but this certainly wasn’t the conversation I’d been toying with.
An ellipsis showed on my phone and I blew out a breath.
Molly
Today at 1:37 PM
What?!? Did she
say why?
Why? Why?! I hadn’t even asked her why!
Chloe dug around in her make-up bag.
“Sweetie.” I cleared my throat when she looked up at me with her big brown eyes. My heart clenched.Please don’t let my four-year-old be hurting so much she no longer wants to live.“Why do you want to die?” I braced myself for her response.
“I want to die so Jesus can borned me again and live in my heart.” She might as well have tacked on aduhfor good measure.
My breath came ragged with relief. “You mean you want to die to sin and live in Christ.”
She nodded and tapped her chest. “In my heart.”
I hugged her to me and pressed a kiss to her temple. “My precious girl.”
“You’re choking me.” Her strangled words were spoken into my ear and I reluctantly let her go. “Now hold still.” She pulled out a black wand from a tube. “I need to make your eyelashes pretty.”
Before I got blinded by mascara, I typed out a text to Molly.
Molly
Today at 1:39 PM
She wants to die TO SIN.
I don’t think anyone’s
decision for Christ has ever
scared me so much.
<3 <3 <3 That is so
precious, Ben. You’ve
got the sweetest little girl
there.
