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Rev. Patrick White, founder of The Chaplains Office of Canada, at a graduation ceremony and ordination service for 14 chaplains last Saturday inside Maple Grove United Church.
New lease on life spawns second career AARON D’ANDREA adandrea@metroland.com Nine years ago, doctors gave Patrick White less than two years to live. White, who was 63 at the time, had suffered three heart attacks, was diabetic and had several other serious health problems.
His doctors said he was in the final stages of heart failure. "I never drank or smoked in my life, and I was just ready to go, but also I wasn’t ready to go," the 74-year-old Weston resident told Metroland Media Toronto. "I can’t even put into words how I felt that it’s over. That’s it. I just accepted it. It became a reality,
and I mean, we have all to face death, I know that, but it did become a real reality and that was about it." With nowhere left to go and no other options remaining, he felt the desire to talk to God, so he prayed, asking for more time to live and, in return, he vowed he would serve God.
"Things started changing," he said. Slowly, he began to feel better, both physically and mentally. Once he was in better shape, White converted from Judaism to Christianity and switched careers from being a motivational
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