[Magdalen] depression

[Esther Williamson]

Dear Jon,
You stay on my prayer list. You made me cry with your description of 
your visit with Mary Jane.
Esther

On 7/10/2015 3:48 PM, Jon Egger wrote:
> I want to thank everyone for their prayers.  I know how I feel when I'm not
> depressed, and today is the best day this week.  On a 1-10 scale, today I
> feel 8.  Every day prior, for a long time,  I was running on 2-3.5.  Mostly
> what I feel now is 'settling'...I'm leveling out and have a wonderful
> calmness that I haven't felt in a long time.
>
> When I do get to Heaven, one of the first folk I want to thank is
> Maryjane.  We first met at CG03, then at an ordination for permanent
> deacons in Chicago. (Steve... I cannot remember his surname.) I last saw
> her after plaintiff left me.
>
> When I went to see her before she died, we said goodbye.  Maryjane knew how
> to live, and she knew how to die.  She was calm, she was happy, and she
> loved her family so much. As I got up to leave, we prayed together, and as
> I got to the door of her room,  I turned around, walked to her, and in
> tears said, "Maryjane when you get to Heaven please send me a nice
> Episcopal girl."  She looked up at me with that smile (which I see every
> time I see photos if Meg), patted my hand and said, "Jon, you'll be OK..."
> A few months later, I met Dawn.  (Dawn is convinced that her mother and
> Maryjane got together to have our paths cross.)
>
> When I retired last night, I opened my Bible app and brought up the NLT
> Bible, set it at Psalm 100, put the earphones in, and hit the "start
> listening" button.  I fell asleep at Psalm 110.  I have always asked
> parishioners to reading the Psalms...every human emotion is in them.
>
> Grace and peace,
> jon