A breath of heaven

Rebirth at Christmas

I stared into your face, Sister Death

(My Mam and Dad were there)

You smiled back at me and said to me in that room:

“not today, Tom.” “your time has not yet come”.

Enveloped in love here on earth I lived to see a new dawn and continued gently on my way

From St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny

27 December 2019

Breath of Heaven

After three nights they kindly wheeled me to a new ward. I was well on the road of recovery.

Flat on my back I passed the dying, the confused, the tormented and those sicker than me.

And then through a slender window high above me, I caught glimpse of a blue sky with a secret force breathing on the clouds as they swept quickly across a winter sky.

It was magic as if I had seen blue, sky and clouds for the first time ever.

“In the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord” (Exodus 16:7)

But why me?

From St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny

29 December 2019

Dad’s 18^th anniversary