Given In Love But Not Mine To Keep: Finding Strength In The Loss Of A Newborn Child - Softcover

Rosales, Jan Wolfe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189316215X ISBN 13: 9781893162150

Publisher: Publishamerica Inc, 2000

Synopsis

"He was. He existed. He was a very small person that touched our lives in a powerful way. [...] Losing Joe did not ultimately rip my life apart, but rather made me stronger, emotionally and spiritually."

Jan Wolfe Rosales lost her firstborn child when he was just four days old. Baby Joe died in his mother's arms in the backseat of an automobile on an Iowa turnpike, on their way home from the hospital where the best university doctors couldn't undo his fatal heart defect. Joe's young parents were devastated. Bereaved. And very angry with God.

This is a book about loss and repair. About finding a source of strength beyond imagination. It is an exceptionally powerful testimony of Faith, a tribute to a son who was given everything but length of days, and a testament to the Son who guided a young woman through her valley of the shadow of death: "Okay, God, I'm going to trust that you know what you're doing, and that you understand what this has done to me."

About this title

About the Author:

Since the death of little Joe in 1990, the author has travelled extensively, following her husband on his US Air Force assignments around the world. She has counseled other women who lost their infants. Together with her husband, Mando, and their two daughters, Jan Wolfe Rosales lives and writes in San Antonio, Texas.

About this edition

• Publisher: Publishamerica Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 189316215X
• ISBN 13: 9781893162150
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176