A Prodigal Son
Baptism
An act, experience, or ordeal by which one is purified, sanctified, initiated, or named.
I must have been 4. Sitting between my mother and my oldest sister in the pew, I looked up at the man towering over the priest from behind the altar. He loomed before me, hands and feet pinned to the crucifix and blood seeping from his chest, looking down on me from above while my family listened to the sermon. All I remember thinking was, “Where am I?”