Wyatt, Consultant in Vascular Surgery Michael (Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

Acquainted with Grief Wyatt, Consultant in Vascular Surgery Michael (Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

In sending these selections of Scripture with their brief reflections, I was informed by the practice in many religions of reading sacred texts to a person on their deathbed as a guide through the process of dying. What mattered most to me was to offer something genuinely needed and desired. I knew that my sister built her life on Scripture and had asked me to read Scripture to her, and I knew that she had asked me about my own near-death experience. There I had the two requests that she had made of me. I simply trusted that the verses that came to me each morning were the right ones to send that day, and I trusted that, as I stilled myself in the presence of those verses and thought of what had helped me, the words I wrote would be the right words. Michael Wyatt