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Lenora was dying. She was 54 and had inoperable cancer. She lay in bed on pillows surrounded by fragrant flowers. The two of us were alone in her room. Lenora\u2019s family was gathered at her house. Suddenly she addressed me sternly. \u201cMs. Nurse,\u201d she said, pointing to a corner of the room, \u201cthis big angel comes and stands by my bed. Right there. He\u2019s always smiling at me.\u201d She fixed me with a look. \u201cMs. Nurse, when I see that angel, do you really think I see that angel?\u201d<\/p>\n

Something in Lenora\u2019s tone told me she\u2019d already tried convincing her family about this angel. Years before, when I first started working as a hospice nurse, I might have hesitated answering her question. I knew all too well the effects of medication and exhaustion on a dying brain. That day, though, I knew exactly what to say. I knew, because years of working with people at the end of their lives had taught me a new, more hopeful and, I believe, more truthful understanding of death. I knew Lenora was seeing more, not less, than the rest of us. \u201cYes, you do see that angel, Lenora. He\u2019s right here in the room with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

I never planned to become a hospice nurse. In fact, when I entered nursing school in the 1950s, there was no such thing as hospice, the formal program of care for terminally ill people. As a nurse I wanted to comfort people and save lives, not be there when they ended. If you\u2019d asked me then, I\u2019d probably have said what countless people have said to me over the years: \u201cHow depressing<\/a> to deal with death every day!\u201d<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t depressing. On the contrary, I mark the day I started work with hospice more than 20 years after I graduated nursing school as the beginning of my real education, an education in hope and joy. I\u2019ve learned that death is not to be feared. In God\u2019s loving hands it\u2019s the door to peace and everlasting life.<\/p>\n

My calling came about almost by accident. I worked for a while for a surgeon until I got married and had kids. I took a break from my career. Then my beloved father-in-law\u2014we called him Grandfather\u2014called one day with the news that he had pancreatic cancer. He didn\u2019t have long to live. He and his wife, worried about coping on their own, asked if they could stay with us. Of course.<\/p>\n

Soon after Grandfather and Grandmother arrived, I was running errands when I saw a sign for the local hospice organization, started by a minister and a nurse named Paul Brenner and Dottie Dorion. I went in. \u201cI don\u2019t know exactly what you do here, but I think I need you,\u201d I said to Dottie. Soon, Dottie was helping care for Grandfather, ensuring he was comfortable and spiritually and emotionally prepared for what was happening to him. After he died, Dottie took me aside. \u201cYou\u2019re a born hospice nurse,\u201d she said. \u201cI watched you caring for your father-in-law. You don\u2019t seem to have that fear of death some people have. We\u2019d love to have you as a volunteer.\u201d<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t sure what to say. True, I was comfortable caring for people at the end of their lives. I\u2019d done it for my dad and for a neighbor named Mary Anne. But they were people I knew. Dottie was telling me I had a gift. Finally I agreed to volunteer. I had the time now that the oldest of my sons was at college and my husband was traveling less for work.<\/p>\n

At once I knew I\u2019d found my calling. Not just because it felt good working again. Not even because I took to helping people in their last days. I knew hospice was my calling<\/a> because almost from the day I started, I met people who showed me just how thoroughly I had misunderstood death. I came to understand the joy God has prepared for his children.<\/p>\n

Consider one of my patients, Frank, a 68-year-old father dying of lung disease. One day Frank said to me matter-of-factly, \u201cJohn is here with me now. Can you see him? He\u2019s by the chair.\u201d He meant his son, John, who\u2019d been killed years before in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Startled, I said I couldn\u2019t see John. \u201cWhat does he look like?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe looks wonderful in his uniform,\u201d he said. \u201cHe says it\u2019s time for me to go.\u201d A few nights later Frank died in his sleep.<\/p>\n

Then there was Hank who, the day before he died, told me he\u2019d just had a visit from his son Shawn. Shawn was in prison and couldn\u2019t have visited Hank in body. But Hank was adamant. \u201cI needed to tell him I forgave him and loved him,\u201d Hank said with perfect lucidity.<\/p>\n

I began to see a pattern in my work. The closer my patients came to dying, the more their eyes and spirits seemed to open to a reality I only glimpsed dimly. One after another, patients recounted not just visits from absent loved ones but an extraordinary awareness of God\u2019s presence. Sins they\u2019d agonized over for years suddenly felt forgiven<\/a>. Grievances they\u2019d spent a lifetime nurturing vanished in a rush of reconciliation. Even unbelievers unaccountably yearned for God, questioning or arguing with me about my faith, until all at once they began praying. Slowly it dawned on me that death is an ending only for those of us still wrapped up in the story of our own earthly lives.<\/p>\n

From the perspective of the dying, death is a strange and wonderful beginning, a threshold to some new and more beautiful world. \u201cLove must be like this, and it must be good,\u201d a patient named Robin once told me. Robin was only 34. As death drew near, he focused ever more on his family gathered around him. He realized their love was a reflection of an even greater love awaiting him. The approach of death opened his eyes.<\/p>\n

It has opened my eyes too. I remember when Grandfather was dying. One day we were sitting looking out the window. He turned to me and asked, \u201cWho is that man standing there by the lake?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the weeping willow tree,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see the tree,\u201d he said with a smile. \u201cI mean the man standing underneath. Who is he?\u201d I saw no one and in those early days I had no idea what Grandfather might be referring to. That evening, though, I told my youngest son what Grandfather had said. \u201cDo you think he saw Jesus?\u201d my son, who was 10, asked.<\/p>\n

I put the same question to Grandfather at bedtime. \u201cYes, dear, why?\u201d he replied. He died a few hours later.<\/p>\n

I believe all who die yearning for God see a wondrous presence as Grandfather did, someone who welcomes them from this life into the next. Thanks to my patients, I\u2019ve been able to catch glimpses of that man under the willow tree, glimpses of heaven while I\u2019m here on earth. There can be no greater hope than that.<\/p>\n

This story first appeared in the April 2010 issue of <\/em>Guideposts<\/a><\/strong> magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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