Meet heart-transplant recipient, Beth Bartlett, a young wife and mother who has faced death repeatedly, beginning at age twenty when she nearly died from an inflammation of the heart lining, and continuing into her forties, when she suffered numerous cardiac arrests before getting a new heart. Drawing on Beth's personal reflections regarding her illness, near-death experience, and literal awakening to new life, Journey of the Heart shows us how to live and love wholeheartedly.
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Bartlett was a 40-year-old college professor with a husband and young son when her life was threatened by heart disease. When all other treatments failed, she was finally given a heart transplant, after which she felt physically and spiritually reborn. Her inspiring story examines her feelings of fear and despair in the face of imminent death; her guilt over not being physically able to care for her son; and her frustration with the weakness of her body. Her unique perspective on death led to spiritual insights as she experienced the stages she describes of letting go, humility, mindfulness, hope, patience, receiving generosity, gratitude, joy and celebration. This personal and heartfelt spiritual journey, including journal and letter excerpts, is a valuable addition to inspirational literature.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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People who receive transplants are immensely grateful for the gift of life. Beth invites us to learn from her experiences-as well as our own-so that we can appreciate, right now, the goodness and richness in our lives. -- Craig Ayers, transplant recipient
This personal and heartfelt spiritual journey, including journal and letter excerpts, is a valuable addition to inspirational literature. -- Publishers Weekly
This personal and heartfelt spiritual journey, including journal and letter excerpts, is a valuable addition to inspirational literature. -- Publishers Weekly
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Thoughts and feelings during a period of near-death episodes,
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This review is from: Journey of the Heart: Spiritual Insights on the Road to a Transplant (Paperback)
This admirable young lady - I know - showed amazing courage during a time of near death episodes prior to a final heart transplant. Her insightful description of the thoughts and feelings experienced during this period of heart stoppages, fibrilations and a trip to the operating room for a transplant only to find the available heart not suitable and be sent home results in lessons in living for all of us.
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