But even though I was so comfortable on the outside, on the inside, a storm was raging. The world was collapsing around me. For the first time since leaving Ghana, I was safe. No more fighting to survive. My future wasn’t uncertain. I was safe. I started crying like a child. I lay there the whole night, wondering why I’d had to experience so much suffering. It says in the Qur’an that all things are predestined. And here I was in Barcelona, with this family that was prepared to love me selflessly, unconditionally, just the way I am, just for the sake of loving me. Had these people been here all
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