Earth Has No Sorrow That Heaven Cannot Heal

It’s been some time since my devastating loss, so I wanted to check with God and see how I was doing. He and I have been quite busy this year working on the book, Amazing Grace: A Tribute to You, The Story of Us. He has graciously kept my mind occupied, yet I still perform periodic mental assessments with God.

Since He made me a nurse, I assess my progress by reviewing material that I vaguely paid attention to while in nursing school. There was really no need for me to take a deep interest in the subject. My family was intact, and it was not of great interest to me at the time. Thirteen years later, however, I’m very interested to read carefully what I merely skimmed over the first time, so in 2007, I reviewed my old class notes, words a stranger in a hair salon found more interesting than I did in the summer of 1994.

God reminded me of the day I initially reviewed this material. It was a Saturday afternoon, and I sat under a dryer in the hair salon studying my class notes. There was a woman who appeared to be my mother’s age sitting next to me. To my surprise, she was reading my class notes as well. She said, “It’s all true.” Referring to my notes, she stated with absolute certainty that the author was totally on target. As I recall that day, I go to my attic and dust off the notes that were once of very little interest to me. Now I want to review the “Grieving Process.”