Review: Such a beautiful interpretation
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 20, 2014
If you have ever lost a loved one I think you owe it to yourself to read this book! I was "gifted" this book by a wonderful lady after she saw my fb status regarding the anniversary of my Dad's death. I wish I would have had this book when my Dad died. I literally turned to books to learn how to grieve. I was 29 years old, married and a Mom. Yet I had never lost anybody who I was so close with. I had lost all of my Grandparents by this point in my life and sure I mourned their passing but losing my Dad was like losing a limb. I was lost in a sea of emotions that was constantly shifting and difficult to navigate. Let me make myself clear. This book is by no means an instruction manual on the grieving process. It is however, a story that I think most people will find scenarios that they can relate to and a story that will help them "move on". I remember wondering how it was that my whole world had just shattered and life as we knew it was going on normally for most other people in my life. I remember thinking I didn't want to have anymore children because they would never know their Grandpa. I just wasn't interested in making anymore memories ever, without my Dad! What this book did for me even 10 years later was made me feel normal. It validated those feelings and was actually therapeutic! I love all of the author's concepts on what we go through after we leave this earth. From the ideas of how we look for all of eternity to the slide show of snippets to show us the "big picture" of our lives. I can only hope that everyone of us gets to see the big picture one day!  I can't imagine how hard this book was to write because I could feel with every word I read how personal this story is. I want to thank Carol Ann Albright Eastman for giving us this story so that maybe our journey through this process might be a little more manageable with the hope that someone is always there.