A Note from Heaven

This is still one of my favorite photos to this day and it honestly wasn’t even planned. I was taking two classes that I was thrilled about that semester— Mark Twain which I had waited for 2 years for and a Disney class. What could wrong, right? Apparently a lot.

I should have known when Georgia lost the national championship game the first day of class. While I did thoroughly enjoy both of those classes, this was my worst semester as far as my health goes (followed closely by the semester before! Junior year was rough y’all). Nobody wants unexplained eczema all over your face but especially not a 21 year old college girl who’s already extremely self-conscious and struggling with anxiety. And it went on for weeks. By the time it started to calm down, my skin was a wreck, cycling between eczema and acne and back again.

I actually was skipping my Twain class the day this picture was taken for a doctor’s appointment. But I was still doing the reading when a random guy walked over and told me how pretty I looked, sitting there reading with the sun shining on me. And he offered to take a picture. I was flustered and surprised, but agreed and ended up with this picture which I love.

I had never seen that guy before and I never saw him again even though I read there all the time. All I know is that I was very close to crying that day because of how bad I felt and that that little moment brightened my day.

I like to think that while I was reading Twain’s Letters from the Earth that God sent me a little note from heaven. And whether angel or not, that moment and act of kindness still makes me smile to this day.