"When Presence Follows Distance" is a reflective essay about love, loss, and the quiet persistence of grace. It follows a father looking back on a season of his daughter's illness that he barely understood while it was unfolding-a time marked by distance both physical and spiritual. In revisiting those forgotten details years later, he confronts the ache of absence and the mercy that moved within it.

What begins as an act of remembrance becomes a meditation on how God uses pain, regret, and delay to draw us closer-to Himself and to the people we love. Through the language of faith and the lens of fatherhood, the story reveals that redemption doesn't erase the past; it transforms it. Grace, he learns, was present even when he wasn't.

Told with quiet honesty and theological depth, When Presence Follows Distance explores how love, faith, and redemption take shape in the spaces between what we meant to do and what we actually did-and how, in those gaps, the Gospel still finds its way through.