Here are persons whom sickness or tragedy or a deep revelation “woke up.” Their eyes were opened. A fire was lit within. A new and fuller life followed.
“I lived only two years!”
Sr Agnes died a few months ago. When I got the news, I remembered something she shared with me years ago—after her second bout of cancer. She suffered from cancer, was treated, got well, and thought she was free of cancer. But in two years, the cancer was back. This second attack was harder to take.
“I have lived only two years,” she told me. “Earlier, I took everything for granted. I did not reflect. I didn’t realize what a priceless gift life and health are. After I was healed of cancer, I really appreciated everything—a person’s smile, the sound of good singing, the words in the Breviary. Everything was real. I was alive. I wasted so many years of my life. I have really lived only these two years. And now, the cancer is back!”
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Fr Joe Mannath SDB
