Fainting for the first time late in life's journey

 Fainting for the first time late in life's journey

fiction

edward w pritchard

Recently I had the experience of fainting for the first time late in life's journey while sitting utterly alone at a medical test in a still darkened hospital room at 8AM and despite the half dozen or so in  panic Doctors and nurses rushing to revive me I experienced a calm serene moment or two similar to being a young child. As perhaps my temporary loss of consciousness being the spirit leaving the body I was later reminded of Saint.John's of the cross' famous poem

I abandoned and forgot myself,

...

all things ceased; I went out from myself,
leaving my cares forgotten among the lilies.