When God Took Grandma Home

We often wonder why God allows injustice and why it seems to occur so selectively. We see lives never touched by tragedy and others that are touched over and over again. We see some who crumble under their burdens and others who face them with unwavering strength. The Grandma Series have been written to help the reader find answers to the questions that arise when encountering the heartbreak often found in life. Ten books are planned for this series. All are compelling stories about good people who struggle with the heartache of life's inequities. Yet ultimately, the heroes and heroines find their way to understanding why bad things happen to good people and learn how tragedy can become a blessing. They learn that the process of closure, so necessary for them to move on, can only come when they find the answers to why things happen as they do. The Bible not only provides insight to the everyday circumstances we live through, but also tells us why life is unfair. Scripture teaches us who instigates and orchestrates our difficult circumstances and why. It tells us how God uses these circumstances to bring about an experience of faith and a blessing for many. If the heroes and heroines of this series, their heartaches, their newfound understandings, and their triumphs touch the reader's heart, the author has met the challenge of creating a novel of value. The first book of the series, When God Broke Grandma's Heart, is a journal, which tells the story of the grandmother's life and the heartbreak she went through time and time again. But it is her final triumph over these situations and what took place in her heart that is special. The incredible understanding she gained and passed along toher granddaughter to whom she told her story changed their lives. What the granddaughter heard has taken root in her heart and thus in this, the second book of the series, the granddaughter comes to recognize how the grandmother's life will affect not only her life and her fianc's, but also the lives of generations yet unborn. This second book of the series, When God Took Grandma Home, tells the story of how the granddaughter, forever changed by writing the journal with her grandmother, uses the resources she has acquired to address the challenges she and her fianc suddenly encounter. Sharing what she has learned with her fianc draws him to the same resources in his desperate search for his own answers. Walking this path together helps them resolve their differences and a tender and more understanding love between them begins to blossom. Chapter One, The Brother, opens with the granddaughter describing the pain her fianc is experiencing over the unexpected death of his brother with whom he was the best of friends. The death of her grandmother only six months earlier allows the granddaughter to relate fully to her fianc's pain. She speaks lovingly of the fianc's brother and describes how his heartaches began when he was just a little boy. When he is seven years old, his parents send him to board at a military academy where he excels academically through his studies and physically through his sports activities. His coach becomes a role model for him, but the vocational ambitions and lack of character in this coach brings terrible harm to this little boy. Many of the young boys under the tutelage of this coach are harmed by his actions, some are expelled from the school and few go on tograduate from their hometown high schools. Their lives are forever changed because of what this man did, with no moral compunction, to these little boys. And thus the reader is reminded of how unfair life can be and how innocent victims are created. The little boy of our story grows into a handsome young man of good character and a loving faithful nature. He marries, has children, and eventually finds a way to continue his education. He chooses and loves a vocation on the open seas. The magnificence and power of the ocean