John of God | Sheila Collins

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

by Sheila Collins | May 28, 2013 | Book Excerpts, Grieving, Health and Wellness, Past Events, Personal Stories, Publications, Rituals, Writing

People would often say to me, “This isn’t the way it’s supposed to be, children dying before their parents.” They said it when my thirty-one-year-old son, Kenneth, died of AIDS and again, seven years later, when my forty-two-year-old daughter, Corinne, died of breast...

Pilgrim

by Sheila Collins | Dec 4, 2011 | Book Excerpts, Personal Stories

I was a pilgrim once, like religious devotees who have traveled over the centuries to sacred sites in search of healing. Rather than to the Holy Land, or to Lourdes, I journeyed to Brazil to meet the man known as, John of God. Learning about him from friends and...

Excerpt from “Warrior Mother”

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