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    Journeys to Home
    Journeys to Home
    Journeys to Home
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    Journeys to Home

    By Janna Benson Kontz

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    Author Janna Benson Kontz took the job of hospice chaplain as a stopgap, filling the time until she was called to serve at a church. She had no idea that hospice work would turn out to be her true calling.

    Journeys to Home presents a poignant trip across the prairie and into the heart of a hospice chaplain. These powerful stories of spirituality and faith seek to touch your heart and soul, while Kontzs simple photos capture the essence of being at peace with nature and oneself. Her stories about patients and families who have changed her deeply can draw you into their lives and change your idea of what the end of this life might look like. She shares the rhythm of the prairie in Road Warrior, Lyle, and Mike and the strength and faith of her patients in the pieces about Fern, Bonnie, and Ole.

    Journeys to Home takes a rare look inside the final days and moments of those who are at the end of their lives and confronts the realization that death is not a disaster to be feared but a journey to home.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInspiring Voices
    Release dateJan 9, 2013
    ISBN9781462404834
    Journeys to Home
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    Janna Benson Kontz

    Janna Benson Kontz was raised on the farm her grandfather homesteaded in northern Minnesota. She and husband, Doug, have two grown daughters, Kori and Britta, and one son-in-law, Luke. Janna enjoys her work with hospice; loves writing, travel, photography, baking, and sewing; and especially loves spending time with family.

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      Journeys to Home - Janna Benson Kontz

      Copyright © 2013 Janna Benson Kontz.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4624-0484-1 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4624-0483-4 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012923768

      Inspiring Voices rev. date: 01/03/2013

      Contents

      Dedication

      Foreword

      Preface

      Lydia

      Lois

      Mike

      Jane

      Bonnie

      Tyler

      Road Warrior

      Rose

      Lyle

      Connie

      Road Warrior

      Jack

      Olga

      Monica

      Doris

      Road Warrior

      Fern

      Ethel

      Ole

      No One Brings a Hotdish When the Cat Dies

      Afterword

      Special Thanks

      Dedication

      This book is dedicated to my parents, Curtis and Jacquelyn Benson, who taught me to live with grace and faith … and to my husband, Doug, and daughters, Kori and Britta, who teach me to live with grace and faith each day.

      Foreword

      From the beginning of our lives to the end, the uncertainty of our transition in our final moments remains a part of our subconscious. Most of us wonder, How do we wrap up the gift that has been our lives? What will be our final legacies? Who will help us come to terms with dying? What will come after our death? Journeys to Home looks at these questions in a beautiful and satisfying way.

      My first experience with Pastor Janna Kontz as a Hospice Chaplain was very personal. My beloved younger sister, Laurie, was in the final hours of her life. Janna came to her bedside to

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