The Spiritual Space
3 min readAug 24, 2021
Recognizing Not All Spaces Are Empty
My fiancé, David, was diagnosed with COVID-19 in March 2020 before most people even had a chance to purchase masks and quarantine for the year that would follow. I dropped him off outside the hospital and went home to wait by the phone. Imaginable pain flowed through my veins as I waited by the phone until later that evening to hear rather he would return home to me that evening. Another 19…