In it, you’ll meet a saint struggling with her faith, a man who talks to trees, a mother grappling with the loss of her son, and other stories gleaned from years of service to the dying and their families.  The author weaves these accounts together with scripture to show how these individuals revealed the sacred more fully to him, in hopes that others can benefit from their stories of faith as well.

Chapters include:

• an story of a mother coping with the impending loss of her son, and its impact on the author’s own relationship to his own son.
• the account of a man seeking to “raise the vibrational frequency of the universe,” and how the author learned a new metaphor for sin in the world
• a hospitalized woman pushes everyone away, except for her roommate
• a daughter struggles with her father’s wish to walk again, revealing our own need to hope in hopeless situations
• a crippled woman reveals how lonely it can be to die in a home full of people
• a devout believer questions where God is in her anguish
• a PhD suffering with Alzheimer’s Disease, with no faith of her own, reveals the beauty of spirituality in music
• a veteran haunted by the many losses in his life bestows a great gift upon the author; his ordination