Religion is very important to millions of people all over the world. Sometimes people encounter challenges within their religion when it comes to outside forces that ask them to potentially believe in something that they may not support. As is this story where a Black mother raising her son in the South as he begins to experience signs of schizophrenia. It reminds her of her aunt who suffered from hearing voices many years earlier. She attempts to follow what she had been taught in the church; she immediately went to her parents for guidance who told her that with the right amount of prayer they would be able to save him from anything. Unfortunately, as her son began to become more and more disconnected, even asking her at one point if she would take him to the doctor. But when presented with this option she is told by her parents that there is nothing the doctor can do that the church can't do. This is a heartbreaking story of a reality that happens far too often of the internal fight that people experience between religion and believing that an outside force such as a doctor can assist with things like mental illnesses.

In this specific story Bobby, her son, leaves her notes to remind her how much he loves her and how he doesn't want her to worry about him. But as we know the job of a parent is to worry from the day that they are born until the day they die. A heartbreaking story where a mother has to lose her son, to on the other side realize that there may have been something that she could have done for him before he died.