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    Love Everlasting: Blessed Are Those That Mourn
    Love Everlasting: Blessed Are Those That Mourn
    Love Everlasting: Blessed Are Those That Mourn
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    Love Everlasting: Blessed Are Those That Mourn

    By Carol Bogart

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    Love Everlasting describes real-life events that the author experienced following the deaths of her parents. These experiences, unexplainable in scientific terms, convinced her that God and Heaven are real. The events transformed her belief in an afterlife from that of simple faith to rock solid conviction.

    It's been said God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters. It is Carol's hope that in "Love Everlasting" readers will find hope that this is only this life, and we will one day be reunited with those whose memories live forever in our hearts.

    Faced with loss -- through terminal illness or the death of a loved one -- the purpose of "Love Everlasting" is to give comfort to those who mourn.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarol Bogart
    Release dateFeb 4, 2011
    ISBN9781458184405
    Love Everlasting: Blessed Are Those That Mourn
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    Carol Bogart

    (See UPDATE at bottom.) Carol Bogart is an Emmy award winning journalist and published author. Her essay, "Once Upon a Memory," is included in an anthology, "The Healing Project: Voices of Alzheimer's" (LaChance Publishing, New York, New York). With a background in TV news, newspapers, radio, commercial voiceover work and online media, Carol also is a freelance writer. Her array of AP awards, both print and broadcast, includes a first place award for feature writing and for Best Community Service reporting. Carol, a lifelong nature lover, has contributed to examiner.com as its Sacramento Nature Examiner. Various examples of her writing can be found in archived Carol Bogart columns at www.WestSacWeb.com. Carol's articles and columns on the subject of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder have been published in numerous newspapers and online (WestSacWeb and http://hubpages.com/profile/Carol+Bogart). Currently (September 2016), Carol continues to be the official advocate for her ADHD son, Mike. Mike, now 30, is enrolled at UC Santa Cruz. He is a senior and completed the first semester of his senior year with a 3.1 overall GPA. He is working on his Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology. In Spring of 2015, Mike completed the college transfer program at Sacramento City College. Majoring in Psychology at Sac City, Mike graduated with honors with a 3.82 GPA. At UCSC, Mike is Captain of the university's 'Slugs' ice hockey team. Carol writes articles about and on behalf of Rotary Club of West Sacramento. The articles are periodically submitted to media and Rotary District 5180's newsletter. Carol is Rotary Club of West Sacramento's 2016-17 Publicity Chair. When Mike is fully "launched" -- Carol has another book in progress.

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      Book preview

      Love Everlasting - Carol Bogart

      LOVE EVERLASTING

      Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

      Carol Bogart

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      Published by:

      Carol Bogart at Smashwords

      Copyright (c) 2011 by Carol Bogart

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      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Smashwords Edition Licence Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

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      Foreword

      Death. Even for those with strong faith in God and the life hereafter, death of a loved one creates an aching void. Many silently endure pangs of remorse for things left unsaid, kind deeds not done.

      We hope, we pray the promise that we will be one day be reunited with loved ones and a loving God proves true. But in our hour of greatest sorrow, the wait seems long.

      We wish only for one last moment to gaze into the lost loved one’s eyes, one more chance to enfold them in our lonely arms.

      My son, then-3, and I lost my mom and dad inside a year – mom, the caregiver, to pneumonia, dad to Alzheimer’s. Just a few months earlier, Michael and I were saddened when a hoped-for adoption fell through. At 40, I was also experiencing the conclusion to my career as an on-air talent in major market TV News.

      There was more grief to come.

      In the months after mom died, my son was diagnosed with ADHD and my marriage ended. I would later learn my crushing exhaustion was due not only to depression, but Hepatitis C, cause unknown.

      I was broken.

      But, just as the Bible promises: Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Within days of my mother’s passing, my son and I began to experience the unexplainable. I know, beyond doubt, that death does not break love’s bond.

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      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Chapter One - Losing mama

      Chapter Two - A foundation of faith

      Chapter Three - A little boy says goodbye

      Chapter Four - Two aching hearts

      Chapter Five - We’re not alone

      Chapter Six - As a grain of sand

      Chapter Seven - Faith rewarded

      Chapter Eight - Coincidence – or a message from mom?

      Chapter Nine - Guardian Angel

      Chapter Ten - A mission unfinished

      Chapter Eleven - The next life

      Epilogue

      Chapter One - Losing mama

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      Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;

      Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.

      Heaven’s morning breaks, and earth’s vain shadows flee;

      In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me. – Abide With Me, Henry Lyte, 1847

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      My mother, tethered to a ventilator, was dying. Oh, mom, I whispered. I’ve always thought if you died, I’d die, too. From earliest childhood, I’d been a mama’s girl. No one could hold me but my mother. Later, raising my son by myself, I shared his firsts with mom. She was always so delighted. Mom was my best friend. The one person on earth I truly trusted.

      Just three weeks before she died, she’d come to my Denver wedding. I was 40, marrying for the first time, to a man I thought would be a good daddy to my little Michael. Mike’s biological dad had not had the maturity to be a parent.

      As a long-time local TV news personality, I knew a lot of people in Denver and the wedding was quite a splash: 300 guests at the catered country club reception.

      I came

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