Touching New Memoir Explores One Mother’s Spiritual Journey After the Sudden Death of Her Young Daughter
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (PRWEB) June 11, 2018 -- When author Judith Marie allowed her 11-year-old daughter Emily to attend soccer-camp like many children do, she had no idea it would end in tragedy. As a nurse who specialized in Child Life at the time, Marie was in the process of attending to another family whose child was in critical condition at the pediatric clinic she worked at when she received the devastating call that changed her life forever. Emily had fallen over as she went to kick a soccer ball and was not breathing. She was rushed to the emergency room where Marie met her and prayed to God to bring her back, but she did not recover.
“How God Shows Up – A Compelling Story Following the Sudden Death of a Child and a Mother’s Determination to Find and Know her Daughter’s Eternal Expression of Life” by Judith Marie RN, MA, MSW, chronicles a mother’s spiritual journey out of despair and grief after the sudden loss of her beloved daughter through her faith in God.
Marie struggled with the dual reality of consciousness as she dealt with her thoughts and emotions that wavered fearfully with purpose for life and a deeply intense rendezvous with God to find her. Her determination to find what it meant and where it was that she would find Emily as a member of “eternal life” was daunting and life-giving.
In “How God Shows Up,” Marie details the devastation of losing Emily, while also celebrating the beautiful life she shared with her daughter during their unforgettable 11-years together. She shares an intimate look into her life and the healing she found through her faith in God to help inspire and heal others who may be suffering and grieving from loss as well.
“I wrote this book to reach out with my gratitude to how God has shown up in my experience of devastation of intense helplessness and pain after the sudden death of my child,” said Marie. “I want to assist anyone who has or is in the experience of this pain from any form of death of a loved one to enable a renewed view of living with the eternal presence of that person from a place within that is the heaven we look for and can find and achieve in a knowing that is real and attainable without waiting for someday when we die.”
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“How God Shows Up – A Compelling Story Following the Sudden Death of a Child and a Mother’s Determination to Find and Know her Daughter’s Eternal Expression of Life”
By Judith Marie RN, MA, MSW
ISBN: 9781504387491
Available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Balboa Press
About the Author
Judith Marie RN, MA, MSW came into the opportunity of writing as she journeyed through courses of spiritual psychology, theology and insight awareness trainings to find a deeper meaning to life after the sudden death of her daughter. As a professional in psychiatry and sociology and as a retired Child Life Specialist in the Pediatric Unit in her community hospital she greeted unfathomable guilt and questioned her purpose in life as she quested without ending to her relationship with God. Through her marriage with Jim that followed, she gained a partnership with her spiritual journey and a passion for ways of healing with several modalities of care. Together they discovered a plethora of experiences of wealth to wellness and strength to restore their joy of life and once again, death, with a great perspective of awe and growth. She finds again, renewed life with her current husband, playing pickle ball, weekly ballroom dancing, gardening and nature and continues her joy for living.
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