At seven, Amos’s world shatters when his father — larger than life, full of stories, and the one who nicknamed him “Amos the Parrot” — doesn’t come home. Too young to understand death, he waits by the window, clinging to his dad’s lessons about hope and resurrection. As confusion turns into a quiet ache, Amos learns his first harsh truth: life can change in an instant and doesn’t wait for you to be ready. It’s a lesson that will echo through the years of loss and setbacks still ahead of him. Life can change in an instant and doesn’t wait for you to be ready