Things I Learned While Waiting For The Hearse

In death, as in life, there are so many choices. Sometimes you make the right ones; sometimes you don’t. The difference is that in life, some of those questionable choices (truck-stop sushi, anyone?) have consequences. Death choices have consequences, too, except they’ll be someone else’s, not yours.

One woman shares her emotional experience navigating her parents’ declining health, culminating in her mother’s years-long struggle with Alzheimer’s. Mary Moreland details her journey through the stages of grief as she comes to terms with her father’s death, followed by her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. As her mother’s disease progresses over eight years, Mary walks readers through the earliest phase and all the way to her mother’s deathbed. She provides insightful advice on grieving and caring for loved ones with dementia or Alzheimer’s, alongside her own story of loss.

There are many events that have opened my eyes and my ears. Events that have shown that God was reaching out to me in all his glory. I hope that by reading about my experiences, you will know that you are not alone! God and the Lord's love is there for all to find.

When a personal testimony takes a printed form it becomes a mighty tool in the hands for every believer. This book is one that empowers us with courage, determination and faith in God's ability to move us from "here to there." Pastor Evelyn had revealed to us the challenges she has faced to move forward in spite of adversity . God bless you, Pastor Evelyn, for writing this book that will be an arsenal for the Body of Christ. Dr. Sandie Freed;Author of seven books, including Breaking the Threefold Demonic Cord: How to Discern and Defeat the lies of Jezebel, Athaliah and Delilah and Crushing the Spirits of Greed and Poverty: Discerning and Defeating the Ancient Powers of Mammon and Babylon.

Tom Zink was born in a blizzard in 1947, a child of winter. Seasoned: A Memoir of Grief and Grace is the story of Tom’s unwitting grief journey of five decades that begins when his older brother Steve is hit by a car and killed while on the paper route the two boys shared. It’s the story of a conservative German Lutheran family and the ways in which the parents and surviving children protect each other in loss with a silent acceptance that does not serve them in the long run. Tom buries his grief along with his brother so he can carry on with his life. His career after high school takes him around the world, across the country, and back again. It is only after Tom is married and a father of two teen-aged sons that, in a moment of profound grace, he realizes the depth and importance of his loss. His faith and new-found desire as an adult to process Steve’s death take Tom full circle back to his brother’s grave. But this is not merely a story of grief and recovery; it is also a tender and lighthearted look at humor and laughter, winning and losing, and doubt and faith.