Unexpected Grace : Comfort in the Midst of Loss

by Walsh, Sheila

• ISBN13: 9780785265306
• ISBN10: 0785265309
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-04-30
• Publisher: Harpercollins Christian Pub

Summary

Some experiences change your life. Some relationships do too. As Sheila Walsh walked with her mother-in-law through her last moments, the two women learned lessons of life--ones that had previously eluded them. These memories have changed Sheila's relationship with Christ and her perspective forever. And they become a blessed chronicle that will change readers' lives as they too are plunged into God's river of mercy. Previously published as Stories from the River of Mercy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Our Story	xi
Part One: In the Beginning
The First Meeting	3	(8)
The Next Morning	11	(3)
That Conversation	14	(2)
The Search for the Ring	16	(2)
The Ring	18	(2)
Planning the Wedding	20	(2)
The Week of the Wedding	22	(3)
The Rehearsal Dinner	25	(4)
The Big Day: December 3, 1994	29	(6)
The First Year	35	(2)
The Baby!	37	(3)
The Delivery	40	(2)
The Visits	42	(4)
Part Two: The Turning
The Beginning	46	(3)
The Gift	49	(4)
A Second Opinion	53	(3)
Stones of Mercy into Pools of Pain	56	(7)
Pain in the Process	63	(4)
The Test Results	67	(4)
Our Last Christmas	71	(5)
The Long Road Home	76	(7)
Broken Dreams and Unexpected Graces	83	(5)
An Immaculate Conception?	88	(2)
Compassion: The Child of Joy and Sorrows	90	(5)
Black Comedy	95	(4)
Prayers We Didn't Know to Pray	99	(3)
Final Requests	102	(4)
Worship	106	(4)
A Conversation Before Dying	110	(5)
The Piano	115	(4)
Good-byes	119	(6)
Part Three: The Homecoming
The Viewing	125	(4)
The Funeral	129	(6)
My Three Boys	135	(6)
A Final Word to the Reader	141	(1)
A Letter to Eleanor	142	(3)
Notes	145	(1)
About the Author	146