In her debut novel, Sarah E. Boring shares a glimpse into her personal grief journey in the first year after losing her best friend, her mother, Valerie. Through specially chosen Bible verses and candid thoughts, she'll walk you through some of her mourning moments as she's having them.
Sarah was a caregiver to her mom for several years and shares pivotal points in the story of her inspirational and brave mother. She describes the wonderful, devoted, and determined woman her mother was, the health battles she fought for twenty-five years, and details her last four painful weeks before being called to Heaven.
With a focus on how her mother never lost her faith no matter what she faced, these devotional passages are meant to provide comfort, hope, and inspiration. Sarah also shares advice for fellow grievers based on her experiences of losing her mother slowly and painfully, but also of losing her dad, Roger, unexpectedly five and a half years earlier. Sarah goes into detail about the questions one asks after losing a loved one, the feeling of no longer having a purpose once your person is gone, and the unmatched power of prayer.
In an effort to get some of her strong and loving mother's story on paper, Sarah's goal is not to reduce her mother simply to another life lost to brutal illness but to share the story of a life well lived about a faithful woman who was and is well-loved.
