Just a little aside before I have to rush to the shower and go to Adoration.
I knew a little girl with Leukemia, she came out of remission and they wanted her to return to the hospital immediately. She comforted her family and told them not to worry but she was very disappointed that she was going to miss 1st Communion class that year because she had wanted the Eucharist for the longest time.
That was on a Thursday evening, I called the priest asked if she could do her 1st Communion on Sunday, he said yes, and the church was standing room only on that day.
I tell you this because she wasn’t even from an exceptionally devout family but her soul knew what was important.
On the day she died, she was laying in her mother’s arms, struggling to breath, almost comatose and she sat up all of a sudden and said that they needed to pray. They couldn’t just say a prayer, they had to kneel. She said the guardian angel prayer and her mother swears that Jack was seeing her angel.
She had been ready to die for a while but she didn’t want to die until her mother could handle it. She so radiated love and in the course of her treatment, even when she felt rotten enough that death seemed a good thought, she would try to make other people feel better.
>>She had been ready to die for a while but she didn’t want to die until her mother could handle it. She so radiated love and in the course of her treatment, even when she felt rotten enough that death seemed a good thought, she would try to make other people feel better.<<
Aw geez, why is my screen so blurry.....
Children and most often children who are ill, have a relationship with God that most of us would envy. He seems to reach out to them in a special way. I’ve known others like this little one. It’s precious to watch. I believe they see Jesus when they die.