Based on the Author’s own experiences with unexpected death in her family – infant death from sudden illness, spousal death from heart attack, and tragic murder of her teenage daughter – the reader is walked step-by-step through the surviving to thriving stages of grief processing. Further, the author’s inspirational life story paints a true picture of living fully in preparation for our own inevitable death and the Heavenly glory that Christians will experience in the afterlife. McMinn is a down-to-earth writer who engages readers with her storytelling and wit. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes absurdly humorous, her writing is wisdom put into practice. Readers finish her books feeling inspired and driven to find accomplishment, joy and satisfaction in life.

One early reader commented,

“Handling death and dying is a complicated and difficult task, whether it’s your own or that of someone close to you. In her book, author Shari Howard McMinn provides much detailed biblical guidance and wise advice gleaned from her own struggles with these issues. She honestly and openly shares her own shortcomings and personal wrestling through those tragedies she has experienced, firsthand, over the years. And believe me, she covers all the bases! She is not just an ivory tower philosopher, but a veteran soldier who has fought in the trenches against our last enemy, death!”  – Dr. Jeffrey K. Boer, M.Div., D.Min., Pastor of Sharon Orthodox Presbyterian Church; Hialeah, Florida