THE POINT OF ME

Then time stops. An angel named Lana arrives to walk him through the truth before he crosses over — not to save his life, but to make sure he faces what comes next honest instead of ashamed. She shows him the whole of it: the sprinkler-lawn summers, the vows he meant, the daughter who once pressed her ear to his chest to check if his heart had stopped. And when Anthony, undone by what he sees, finally asks God for forgiveness, the answer arrives faster than he can believe. It's followed by a truth he never saw coming about exactly where the last of himself is about to go.