“I am with you always,” Matthew 28:20
This column is about a critically ill woman who is visited by the Lord himself when she dies after a failed organ transplant.
I entered her dark room and found Naomi lying in her hospital bed, her skin an ashen color and a nasal cannula delivering oxygen to her frail body.
I introduced myself as a chaplain from the local archdiocese. Considering her sickly appearance, I was stunned by her quick and, frankly, rather blunt response.
“Ah, yes. Catholic,” she said. “Well, I have been visiting a lot of different churches.”