“It’s when we think we’ve lost everything that we find the perfect place for God to fill our hearts. By shifting our perspective, nothingness can be the starting point for receiving everything.”. This statement by Pablo Delgado de la Serna, which gives the book its title, appears nearly halfway through the volume. By that point, we’ve already spent months alongside this “transplant,” through the pages of the book, in which he shares confidences, thoughts, reflections, and small, everyday details of a life that is anything but “normal.”.
Nothingness is everything It takes the form of a short diary—it compiles a series of posts in which Delgado de la Serna recounts his daily routine and his fears, and inspires so many people to pray (and he prays himself).
Pablo Delgado de la Serna’s life has been marked by illness since birth. However, if there’s one thing he repeats throughout these pages, it’s that he feels like “a lucky guy.” A lucky guy who spent years on dialysis (until April 2026, when he received his long-awaited kidney transplant), who has had one leg amputated and faced the uncertainty of losing the other, who has spent months in the hospital, and who has had to spend his vacations apart from his wife and daughter….
By today’s standards, this situation wouldn’t be called luck, but Pablo has made lemonade, ice cream, and cake out of lemons, because he’s been able to channel his pain into a path of dedication and helping many other people. The book also highlights the cornerstone of his life: his family—especially his wife, Sara, and his daughter, Amelia (his “SAP team”)—without whom he would not have been able to face life in the same way.
The book covers the period from August 2024 to November 2025, perhaps one of the most difficult times for Pablo and his family. In these brief diary entries, Pablo does not hide his pain, the despair that creeps in, or his exhaustion… He does not “spiritualize” his pain but faces it head-on. He does not drag his cross or his burden along.
If there is one feeling this book leaves you with, it is hope, confidence, cum fide, with faith, of one who has entrusted himself to God—and to the doctors—and who finds love, above all else, in life.
