Momma, I Remember: My Story of How I Got Through Losing My Mother With God’s Grace by Patricia A. StanleyDeath is something none of us can escape. Someone significant in our lives will die at some point. There’s nothing we can do to stop it. There’s nothing we can do to prevent it. Death doesn’t care about your level of education or how much money you may have in the bank. It doesn’t care what you look like or what color you are. It comes and sometimes it comes suddenly, when you least expect it. This book is about a daughters great love for her mother. Her mother was a source of strength and security for her and her family. Her mother was the backbone of the family. She held everything together. Her mother worked hard to keep a roof over her and her sister’s head and to put food on the table. The author loved and appreciated all her mother did to help them survive. When her mother died, she thought she couldn’t go on without her. It talks about the struggle she went through on a day to day basis and how she just wanted to curl up and die. It talks about the deep depression she went through and having to go through years of grief counseling. It goes into great detail about what the author went through from the first day she heard of her mother’s death and wanting to die to God taking her to the other side of her grief and wanting to go on living to help others with their struggle in dealing with their own loss of loved ones. The book gives details of:* the author’s grief journal* poems explaining the suffering she went through, the tears she shed* how alone she felt even though she was around other people* the author’s great love for her mother and how she appreciated everything she did to show her love* her mother’s pain and struggle and how she worked so hard and gave so much of herself to keep the family together* how the author with God’s help managed to get through and move on to want to live and enjoy her life again* how God transformed her and moved her to the other side of her grief* forgiveness- and how through counseling the author was able to forgive her father for mistreating her motherThis book would be a great gift for anyone who has experienced the loss of a significant loved one. It tells of the author wanting to help others come out of their grief and struggle. It shows how God can and will help us in the midst of our pain. It tells of the restoring and healing power of God! it’s sprinkled with God’s Word to let the reader know He is real and He does answer prayer.