The loss of a child hits a parent with the force of a neutron bomb. It shatters and scatters everything that a parent considers family; it destroys everything you consider your world. Normally, parents love unconditionally, care sacrificially and identify with their children so completely that chronic illness in a child veritably becomes prolonged illness in the father and mother. The death of that offspring can even kill a parent. This story deals with such devastation, and with the hope and resilience that Jesus Christ brings to a family in protracted suffering and later in mourning. May our Saviour minister to you, encourage and inspire you as you go through the pages of this short book.