Dear Deb: A Woman with Cancer, a Friend with Secrets, and the Letters That Became Their Miracle

by Margaret Terry

Paperback, 2012

Status

Available

Call number

248.8

Publication

Thomas Nelson (2012), Edition: 1St Edition, 222 pages

Description

Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML: "I want you to know that if my illness inspired you to write these stories, the cancer was worth it." --Deb What stories could possibly make cancer worth it? Stories that represent a miracle--a lifetime of miracles. Stories that changed the writer as she wrote them, and the woman who received them. Stories that will touch the heart of the listener, one by one by one. They started out as words of encouragement to a dying woman. They turned into a collection of sparkling and intimate moments, pulled from the past to finally be understood and shared with new meaning. Story by story, letter by letter, Margaret Terry uncovered powerful pictures in her own life of the one truth that could help carry her friend Deb from this life to the next: God is at work. Together, Deb and Margaret found renewed hope in all the ways God shows up right to the very end. Which is where they found the miracle they'd been praying for all along. In each other..… (more)

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LibraryThing member jnut1
Dear Deb is not a book I would normally read. But the concept of this book intrigued me. This was a book of letters that Margaret Terry wrote to her friend Deb who was dying. They started out being letters of encouragement but so many of them seemed to bring new meaning to simple things, stories of
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the past, understanding, God!
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ISBN

9781400204373
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