Kathleen Evans was just an ordinary woman in NSW until the day she was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and given a matter of months to live. Advised not to undertake treatment as her illness was too advanced she got her affairs in order and prepared to die. But then something amazing happened - she got better. Less than a year later she was given the all clear with all medical tests confirming she had no signs of cancer within her once ravaged body.
A miracle by anybody's standards (religious or not), the only answer Kathleen had was the Mary McKillop relic she had worn under her clothing every day and the knowledge that a prayer group at her local church had been praying specifically to Mary McKillop on her behalf.
It wasn't until almost a decade later that Kath saw a program on TV about Mary McKillop and the criteria for her potential sainthood. A long, laborious process it required two verified miracles to be attributed to the dead nun before she could be canonised. Firmly believing that Mary's intervention had saved her life Kath contacted the relevant people and the process of ratifying Mary's second miracle began.
This is a very inspiring book. It charts the journey of a woman who had accepted she would die and who held out no hope of even buying herself some extra time with treatment. So it is not like she was putting out positive vibes, visualising herself well, meditating, eating organic food or doing any of the other things that have been attributed to curing cancer. It shows that sometimes, for reasons none of us can fathom, things happen that cannot be explained by science or reason. Kath herself is a very humble, "ordinary" person who has no idea why her life was spared when others die, however her message is that we should all learn to be grateful for what we have and enjoy each moment.
Told in simple, everyday language Kath's Miracle is an easy book to read and a hard one to put down. Although Kath is a committed Catholic, it is not a preachy book by any means and you do not need to be religious to gain wisdom from it.
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