an easter email
From: Jim Delaney
Hello James, I hope you have a lovely Easter lunch today with your family.
Thanks for praying for me, I go to Buckfast Abbey very often and when there I always light a candle for you and your family. It is a beautiful place, it is possible to feel the spirituality or holiness that exists there. The monks pray 7 times a day in public and also pray in private, so I think that is why I feel the existence of something special there. Even in the Summer, when there are hundreds of people.
I was diagnosed with a serious kidney disease when I was 15 years old. I know some people who are half my age who have had their second transplant, they have the same renal condition.
I am still going strong, Mr McGonigle the renal expert cannot understand why I am so healthy. Perhaps in the future I will need dialysis, but for the moment I am very healthy for someone with my condition. That is my first miracle.
A couple of years ago, I was admitted to hospital and the heart specialist said I would probably have a heart attack or a stroke within a week. So I had an operation to unblock my arteries, which the tests done by the specialist indicated was necessary. After the operation the specialist said he could find nothing wrong, he can't understand it. 3 weeks later I was cycling 8 miles a day, return journey to work. That is my second miracle.
18 months ago I was rushed into hospital by ambulance to A and E. 4 weeks later when I was talking to my GP, she told me she'd been ringing the hospital to see how I was. I said I thought that was unusual, but I thanked her for caring. She said she rang because she didn't think I would get to the hospital on time. My kidney condition had deteriorated so quickly. She thought I was dead. I am not and that is my third miracle.
So you and the Divine Mercy are doing a good job. Because of my experiences the thought of death is constantly on my mind, but I have no fear of dying, in a way I am looking forward to it.
We live in a very sad world of greed and selfishness. Millions of acres of rain forest are being destroyed to grow beef burgers. That land ends up damaged and useless in most cases. When my oldest daughter was a teenager she had a poster on her wall which went something like this: When the last tree is felled, and the last fish taken from the sea, only then will man realise that MONEY cannot be eaten.
It is a lovely day here today. I think I will drive to Buckfast Abbey. Not just to pray. They serve a lovely treacle tart with hot honey and clotted cream. It is better than sex.
God bless for now. It is a great honour to be able to talk to the greatest living Irish poet. Have a lovely Easter weekend.
Jim
Hello James, I hope you have a lovely Easter lunch today with your family.
Thanks for praying for me, I go to Buckfast Abbey very often and when there I always light a candle for you and your family. It is a beautiful place, it is possible to feel the spirituality or holiness that exists there. The monks pray 7 times a day in public and also pray in private, so I think that is why I feel the existence of something special there. Even in the Summer, when there are hundreds of people.
I was diagnosed with a serious kidney disease when I was 15 years old. I know some people who are half my age who have had their second transplant, they have the same renal condition.
I am still going strong, Mr McGonigle the renal expert cannot understand why I am so healthy. Perhaps in the future I will need dialysis, but for the moment I am very healthy for someone with my condition. That is my first miracle.
A couple of years ago, I was admitted to hospital and the heart specialist said I would probably have a heart attack or a stroke within a week. So I had an operation to unblock my arteries, which the tests done by the specialist indicated was necessary. After the operation the specialist said he could find nothing wrong, he can't understand it. 3 weeks later I was cycling 8 miles a day, return journey to work. That is my second miracle.
18 months ago I was rushed into hospital by ambulance to A and E. 4 weeks later when I was talking to my GP, she told me she'd been ringing the hospital to see how I was. I said I thought that was unusual, but I thanked her for caring. She said she rang because she didn't think I would get to the hospital on time. My kidney condition had deteriorated so quickly. She thought I was dead. I am not and that is my third miracle.
So you and the Divine Mercy are doing a good job. Because of my experiences the thought of death is constantly on my mind, but I have no fear of dying, in a way I am looking forward to it.
We live in a very sad world of greed and selfishness. Millions of acres of rain forest are being destroyed to grow beef burgers. That land ends up damaged and useless in most cases. When my oldest daughter was a teenager she had a poster on her wall which went something like this: When the last tree is felled, and the last fish taken from the sea, only then will man realise that MONEY cannot be eaten.
It is a lovely day here today. I think I will drive to Buckfast Abbey. Not just to pray. They serve a lovely treacle tart with hot honey and clotted cream. It is better than sex.
God bless for now. It is a great honour to be able to talk to the greatest living Irish poet. Have a lovely Easter weekend.
Jim
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