Small Things Like These

by Claire Keegan

he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror? How light and tall he almost felt walking along with this girl at his side and some fresh, new, unrecognisable joy in his heart.