Carried by Grace: My New Heart Story

Book excerpt: Life is so busy. We easily become consumed with our responsibilities today and our plans for tomorrow. Without a thought, it is simply taken for granted that we will even live to see tomorrow. Sometimes it takes a brush with death to change our focus and give us a proper perspective. This book is a first-hand account of exactly that sort of experience. At the age of 50, a healthy husband and father suddenly finds himself at death's doorstep with little warning. The plans and business of life quickly come to a halt as the end of it all suddenly seems near. Through it all, faith becomes more than just believing. Faith becomes trusting - trusting God to carry him where he would rather not go, even through the valley of the shadow of death. And that faith is strengthened thanks to the prayers of many, and the grace of God's merciful answers to those prayers.