[Magdalen] depression

[Ginga Wilder]

Thank God, good medication, and your wonderfulness, Jon.  I am very glad
you are calm and feeling so much better.

Love you,
Ginga

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Esther Williamson <momohl1 at cox.net> wrote:

> 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
>>
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