One early morning just nine months after she and her husband of 27 years had separated, Pam Carlquist inadvertently began a dialogue that would change her life forever. In a moment of anguish, she sat down with pen and paper and cried out to God for help. To her surprise, she received an answer, a response so comforting and so wise that she continued the correspondence for over a year– indeed, forever more. The answers, though not what she had expected, launched her on a journey of healing and love. 

The dialogue began with questions concerning her personal life– in particular, the breakup of her marriage and the loss of her parents as a child– but branched out to other issues, as well. How does one deal with the pain of divorce, she began, with death, with guilt, with poverty, with the terrorist world, with the everyday problems of life? Each question invoked a response so full of compassion and clarity that it changed her thinking forever. Memories flooded back, events that had brought her to where she was, but viewed with the help of her Guide through clearer, more enlightened lenses.

This is a book that explores the essence of loss and that poses questions we all have asked. How does one fill the holes that become an inevitable part of one’s life? How does one find joy in the midst of pain? How does one tap into the remarkable resource of the human spirit to rise above adversity, war, even death– and triumph? 

The audience for this book includes all who suffer but, in particular, those involved in relationship breakups, those seeking peace in the throes of separation, those wishing to move at last past the pain… of divorce, death or any parting of lives once joined.