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Glimpses of Heaven
By Trudy Harris

June 2011

  • Preparing for Eternity
    June 27, 2011

    Are we ever prepared to hear that our health is not good or that a family member has an illness for which there is no cure? I really don’t think so.

    But when you have lived a long and fruitful life, at a certain point you begin to have loved ones and friends who receive terminal diagnoses and face the prospect of dying. Here are a few of those experiences for me.

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  • "He Came to Comfort Me"
    June 24, 2011

    Dear Trudy,

    When I was a freshman in college, I would sometimes go to my father's office in the English department—he was a professor there—to do my homework.

    On October 23, I was doing my homework when I suddenly smelled my grandfather. I remember thinking that it was two months to the day before his birthday, December 23. A little while later there was a knock on the office door and I got up to answer it.

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  • Together in Heaven for Eternity
    June 13, 2011

    On almost a daily basis, I hear from people who share with me experiences God allows them to have following the loss of a loved one.

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  • Finding Grace After a Child’s Death
    June 7, 2011

    Dear Trudy,
    We lost our beloved Mitchell last Christmas. He took his own life after a struggle with drugs. He was just 21 years old.

    God grants us all just enough of His grace to get through each day, but our family will never be the same.

    I pray daily for our young people and the other families who wake up every day with the pain of losing a young person this way.

    Dear Friend,

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Trudy Harris, RN, is the author of the popular Glimpses of Heaven and More Glimpses of Heaven. Although now retired, she was a hospice nurse and president of Jacksonville's Hospice Foundation for Caring where she raised more than $45 million in capital contributions. You can find her on Facebook!