Rainy Day

I stood and prayed in the rain as a life came to an end yesterday.

An elderly woman had attempted to cross the street several meters away from the cross walk. The driver of the van ran over her. I read today in the paper that the emergency workers had to extract her from under the vehicle.

I watched as they administered c.p.r. under a shiny, metallic tarp and transferred her to the ambulance. I prayed for her family and for the driver.

The paper said she was eighty years old and that the driver was taken to a hospital in a state of shock.