Stairway To Heaven Grandma Has Gone Home

Stairway to Heaven: Grandma Has Gone Home is a heartwarming, reflective, and reassuring story that chronicles one child’s experience with the loss of a beloved grandparent. In this experience, Molly has lots of questions. Molly’s desire to make sense of her world without her grandma brings to light the reality that life is short and that there will never be a right time to say goodbye to a loved one. Lost in her world and making some sense of why our loved ones leave, she finds that there is a shimmering light of hope. Molly is better able to make sense of this difficult time by piecing together her memories of what it was like when Grandma was around. She begins to understand that her memories are what will carry her throughout the rest of her life as she learns to accept that Grandma will no longer be an integral part of it. Better yet, she learns that Grandma will be a constant and permanent memory that will remain in her heart forever.

Our journey takes us into the lives of an immigrant family from Canada who came to the United States looking for a better life, warmer climate for their children. From Canada, to across the border in Detroit, Michigan to Colorado and finally the Pacific Northwest. Step into the life of my Mom, the preacheraEUR(tm)s wife, find out if God treats her same in life as you. Learn how God worked in their lives and how you can get the blessings of the Lord poured out upon your life. My momaEUR(tm)s testimony of her life, she has seen every kind of obstacle in life that you can go through, as a preacheraEUR(tm)s wife, see how she handled it. You need to ask yourself these questions: Does God treat a PreacheraEUR(tm)s wife the same as everyone else? Would you give up everything you have to serve God? What choices do you make in your life? Good, bad, right or wrong? Do you know Him? - Or you donaEUR(tm)t? Does God hear everyoneaEUR(tm)s prayers? - Is Heaven real? Do you pray and talk to Him? - Do you put God first in your life? Do you include Him in your problems you have? Are you going to be ready for that day? Do we accept GodaEUR(tm)s salvation? - Or do we reject Him You need to ask yourself a question if you were to die today would you go to heaven? Mom showed us that we have choices to make in this life, some of them for good and some bad. DonaEUR(tm)t be a procrastinator and put off the choices you can face. Some choices have long-lasting effects on your health physically and mentally. If my mom would have gone to the doctor when she first started to have problems, she may have never got cancer. Instead she lets it go for a few years and then it turned into something real bad, CANCER. When your body talks to you, you should listen, go to the doctor. God uses all the doctors here on earth to help all of us while we are here. So make the right choices in your life. God treats us all the same in life; the difference is the relationship that you have with Christ. God rewarded my mom in a special way when she died. Never before have I seen death come this way in someoneaEUR(tm)s life. Find out whataEUR(tm)s waiting for you when that time comes for you. We never plan on dying, but when you least expect it, it can happen in a moment to anyone. God loves us & cares for us no matter who we are and His gift of salvation is free for all of us. DonaEUR(tm)t miss out on seeing what God can do for you! DonaEUR(tm)t waste your time away. Ask Him!!!

Grandma took a trip back to her childhood home in 1954. She took copious notes and photos on her travels, so she could revisit her adventure time and time again. Years later, I found the journal and felt as if I were traveling alongside her.

Melinda (Simpson) Rust was blessed with a beautiful baby girl, her second child, who she named Leslie. Everything seemed okay until Leslie suddenly coughed and appeared to be choking. Then she stopped breathing and her lips turned blue. Little did Melinda know that she was showing symptoms of cystic fibrosis¿a hereditary disease that affects many vital organs in the body. The doctors said that the disease was debilitating and would limit Leslie¿s capability to do certain things normal children go through. They even say that she will not live past her childhood. Melinda refused to take their words and instead encouraged her daughter to live her life to the fullest and reach for her dreams. Although Leslie died at the young age of thirty-one, she was able to enjoy life and love. She even became a mother to a son. Living with an Angel is a story of love, faith, and hope between a mother and a daughter who both went through mental, physical, and emotional pains brought about by an incurable disease that slowly kills, and whose belief in God enabled them to cope and accept the inevitable fate of parting and dying.

Like the best of memoir writing, My Invisible Scars is alternately brutally honest, sad, triumphant, tense, motivating, uncomfortable, and unforgettable. Relying on journals that she has kept since childhood, Canadian author Willa-Mae E. Scot articulately recounts in (mostly) chronological order the highs and lows of her long life, beginning with her early childhood in a small Saskatchewan town. Willa-Mae writes candidly about terrible disappointments, life-threatening ordeals, and her incredible and unwavering determination to put aside countless negative experiences, and live, embrace, and enjoy life to the fullest. This memoir is a must-read book for anyone whose life has been derailed by the unexpected loss of a loved one, violence, family break-up, infidelity, addictions, abandonment, or by poor, sometimes non-existent, choices. Those who have suffered through trauma and struggled to put that trauma behind them will see their journey reflected in these pages and be reassured that, even when down at rock bottom, they can find a way to be happy again. My Invisible Scars is instructive and inspiring, enlightening and engaging, and a great testament to its author’s tremendous courage and forthrightness. Most of all it is a testament to her enviable ability to offer forgiveness to the many people who have hurt her, and then gracefully move forward in life.

From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.

To all my readers and everyone who buys this book, thank you! I know it's hard to write a story of your life when every life is a story-but maybe, because I had the courage and the drive to write my story, maybe you can now write yours. I know how hard it is to face challenges and wonder sometimes if you can ever make it. So, I didn't write this book because I'm rich or famous. I wrote this book to give you courage and hope and to let you know you are never alone in this big old world. If I can help just one person, then my life and this book will be worth it. I wrote this for the child facing months in bed for a disease they don't understand, for the single mother trying to keep it all together, for the wife who has to kiss a dying husband one last time, for the mother who hears her child is dying, for those with cancer facing chemo, for everyone who has ever been discouraged. I want to be your ray of sunshine and show you that you can go on and that life can truly be beautiful-one day and one step at a time. For as long as we wake up, we can listen to the music of life, and we can dance! So, dance till the music stops! Never Give Up and Never Give In You CAN reach the mountain top! No matter how tough LIFE seems, Just follow your dreams and Dance Till The Music Stops! Love, Joyce

Separate pieces fit together to reveal the picture God had intended. Lifes a Puzzle is a true story about being given a great life, where with hard work dreams come true. Everything was going according to Brendas plan. Then, with the loss of her first husband, her dreams died. Did love die too? She chose to have new dreams and found love again. This time, she connects with a family that has plenty of ups and downs, with good times and hurtful attacks. Brenda holds on to her past while looking ahead, sometimes getting jarred and shocked by the rough bumps. Brendas journey leads to motherhood, including a trip into the puzzling world of autism, with lessons to learn at every turn. Looking through the contrasts of sadness and happiness, harmony and conflict, wonder and hope were found. Even when things were dark and pieces had flipped upside down, the picture was coming together, becoming beautiful. Brenda discovered incredible realities of life, coming to know without a doubt that love overcomes death and that life is so much more than we can see. She is amazed to find that God has truly been there, in every place, in every moment, for everyone.