Heaven's child : a mother's story of tragedy and the enduring strength of family

When Caroline Flohr’s sixteen-year-old twin daughter, Sarah, is killed in an accident involving eight teens taking a mid-night joyride, what’s left behind? And how do you move forward? An intimate self-examination told through the eyes and heart of Sarah's mother Caroline, Heaven's Child is a magical memoir that teaches us how to surrender to our losses and celebrate the gifts of death while rediscovering life. Tackling deep questions and universal misunderstandings, the story draws readers to journey beside Caroline as she opens the domestic scenes of home, heart, family, and community. Heaven’s Child provides the solace needed to overcome our greatest losses. The story encourages you to find your life’s purpose and helps you realize that you never journey alone. The book covers sudden loss; death of a child; relationships within a family; funerals and traditions; doubts, faith and hope; marriages, divorces, and parenting; forgiveness and healing; the power of memories and intuition; inner strength, and the resilience of the human spirit. Heaven’s Child shows us that the grieving process is personal, that it’s not just about death but also about any loss in our life; that grieving is not about endings...but about new beginnings.

Sixteen-Year-Old Sarah, Younger twin by two hours, wrote, And now it is time for my story to end because we have finally reached the beginning. Did she know? How could she have guessed? Or did she just happen to choose words that had a greater meaning for her life about to be tragically cut short?

Heartbreaking and heartwarming, Heaven's Child captures the readers in a web of raw emotions in events that could strike any family. Like teens across the country, Sarah had parents who cared, attended a good school, lived in a safe community. And yet, life carries no guarantees. Caroline Flohr flings open her family's life for viewing, painting an intimate portrait of a nightmare in a small community and a family's determination to triumph after tragedy.

Heaven's Child celebrates the enduring strength of family and the power of love and faith to heal the heart even in the midst of unimaginable loss. It is everyone's triumph over the adversities that we all face in a lifetime.

As Sarah, Wise beyond her years, discovered and Flohr challenges the reader to consider, death defines not the end of the journey but a begining.

"Sixteen-year-old Sarah, younger twin by two hours, wrote, 'And now it is time for my story to end because we have finally reached the beginning." Did she know? How could she have guessed? Or did she just happen to choose words that had a greater meaning for her life about to be tragically cut short? Heartbreaking and heartwarming, Heaven's child captures the reader in a web of raw emotions in events that could strike any family. Like teens across the country, Sarah had parents who cared, attended a good school, lived in a safe community. And yet, life carries no guarantees. Caroline Flohr flings open her family's life for viewing, painting an intimate portrait of a nightmare in a small community and a family's determination to triumph after tragedy."--Page 4 of cover.