In the stillness between breath and prayer, between goodbye and forever, life was found.
The Light That Leads Me Home is a deeply moving collection of poems born from the sacred, heartbreaking journey of one mother’s love while caring for her terminally ill son. Written in the quiet moments beside his bed during times of hope, fear, exhaustion, love, and quiet resilience, these poems trace the many shades of grief that awaken us.
These poems are a collection of the words that are thought, but rarely spoken, the thoughts that stir within us, yet are often left unspoken because we don’t want others to know. They give voice to the emotions that can exist beneath the surface: the questions, fears, doubts, hopes, and heartaches that are sometimes too vulnerable to say aloud.
The journey through grief is uniquely our own, yet what we learn along the way is never meant only for ourselves. Our stories and the wisdom born from them can become a light and a source of hope for someone walking a similar path.
This book is an accompaniment to my memoir, I See Jesus. Where the memoir tells the story with honesty and vulnerability, these poems peel back yet another layer, revealing the emotions that live beneath the story, the intimate thoughts and feelings that are often hardest to put into words
These poems speak to those unexpected places where love and loss meet and where the heart is broken open, becoming a doorway to something beyond what we can imagine. A place to feel seen, understood, and less alone. And above all, they offer a reminder: Even in the darkest night, there is a light that remains. A light that leads us home.