"Mike Moscoe - The Strange Redemption of Sister Mary Ann" - читать интересную книгу автора (Moscoe Mike)

Sister Mary Ann recaptured her wandering thoughts and herded them back to familiar prayer,
asking a loving God to look after the four children she had given life to, loved and cared for
and who now lived busy lives of their own with wives and husbands, children and maybe
even a grandchild. Those were easy.

It was more difficult to ask that same loving God to forgive her the sins she had let science
commit on her body. Here, her scientific training still battled with her faith. This close to death
An she tried to simply submit to Holy Mother Church? s decree. Still her mind questioned. With a
alo sigh she once again forced down her doubts and said her penitent ? s prayers.

g is The last prayer was the most difficult of all. How did she pray for children she ? d never
no known, the ones that had vanished so quickly across death ? s door, if indeed they had ever
lived? Oops, don ? t argue. Submit. That cancer won ? t wait forever. She had no names for
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those little ones. She didn? t even know how many they were, a hand full, dozens? She had
av never bandaged a knee for them, shouted at their ball games, cried at their weddings. They
aila were the hard ones to pray for, so she tried to pray for them the most.
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Sister Mary Ann did not bother praying for herself. The cancer held her tight in its embrace . . .
in it would not let her go. The cancer ? s pain didn? t bother Mary Ann all that much. She had lived
ele long enough; she? d sinned as much as seemed convenient. Now her body offered her a
painful penance. Penance and sacrifice had never been a part of her life, not around Bill and
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the kids. Now it demanded center place and she approached it more from curiosity than
oni anything else. Life had taught her many lessons; what was she to learn from this?
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