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“Macy!” I call

I’m surprised at myself This isn’t my way I never take this kind of initiative

Macy turns “Katelyn, is everything all right?”

“Yeah Yeah I think so”

“You think so?”

“Do you…” I clear my throat “Do you have a minute?

“Of course” She walks toward o into my office?”

“Yes, thank you”

I follow Macy back into the fellowship hall and through a door behind the wall Her office is ss on the wall

“Yours?”

“Guilty,” she says “Two babies and two fur babies”

“They’re beautiful”

“Thank you I like them” She smiles “What can I do for you, Katelyn?”

“I… Well… I kind of have a date tonight”

Macy widens her eyes “Oh?”

“Yeah It’s… Well, I was at The Glass House with Zee last night”

“When she went into labor?”

“Yeah How are she and the baby, by the way?”

“I haven’t heard anything since Reid’s text this rabs her phone “Here’s a photo”

I take the phone from her Zee’s face is pale and her eyes rimmed with dark circles, and baby Honor is a red newborn

But I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything so beautiful in my life

A smile splits my face before I know it

“A new baby puts things into perspective, doesn’t it?” Macy says

I nod I have no words I never thought I’d have a baby I never thought I’d live this long Now…is it all possible?

“The thing you said today during group,” I say, “that you don’t have to wait until life is no longer difficult to be happy”

She nods

“Those words… They spoke toout to dry So much therapy, and it helped, of course I wouldn’t be here, on my oell, sort of onall that therapy, no one ever said those particular words”

“Really?”

“Really And they seem so simple”

“Life is far from simple, Katelyn,” Macy says, “but in the end, happiness is a choice You can choose to be miserable, or you can choose to be happy Unfortunately, many choose the former”