Michael would not have listed as sacrifices. They were just what the day required.
That is the thing that is hardest to explain to people who have not seen it.
The Sarahs of the world believe they understand sacrifice. They have opinions about it. They track it. They measure it against outcome and announce the verdict. They say Michael wasted his life and mean it as analysis, as if life is a resource that can be conserved by keeping it for yourself.
Michael never tracked it that way. He could not have told you, if you asked, what he had given up. He would have looked at you without quite understanding the question, the same way you look at someone who has asked you to explain why you breathe. Because the baby was in the mud. Because the baby
stopped crying when he picked it up. Because a name is a beginning, and a boy needs a beginning.
