Beyond the Bend

by Barry Blackstone

Publisher:

Resource Publications

, 2021

Overview

Journey with a family through six months in "the valley of the shadow of death" as an aggressive lung cancer takes a beloved, firstborn son through the worst battle of his life. A Purple Heart recipient from the Afghan war, Scott's war with cancer will highlight and underline the survival on a distant battlefield only to die on a familiar home front. Share the thoughts and memories of a dad reflecting on the irony of the number forty, and read of his memories of his past that helped him endure one of the greatest tragedies of his life, the death of his son in his fortieth year. Witness the miracles in the midst of the misery as family and friends rally to help this family cope with an incurable disease. Note the sadness that comes when this father's father passes away at the height of his grandson's struggle for survival. Hear the glimmer of hope that comes from looking "beyond" to happier and fairer days coming in the blessed place called heaven. See the faith that sustains through insomnia and illness, heartache and heartbreak. Learn the precepts from the Bible that that will not only help one understand the process but understand the purpose of why someone so young passes away. This book is more about departing than dying; more about heaven than earth; and more about acceptance than bitterness.

Product Details

• Title: Beyond the Bend
• Author: Barry Blackstone
• Publisher: Resource Publications
• Print Publication Date: 2021
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9781725291591, 9781725291584, 1725291584, 9781725291560, 1725291568, 1725291592
• Resource ID: LLS:9781725291591
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-26T21:34:41Z

About the Author

Barry Blackstone has been the pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist Church of Ellsworth, Maine, for nearly thirty years. With the unexpected passing of his wife of forty-seven years, Pastor Blackstone felt it was time to deal with it through the death of his thirty-nine-year-old soldier/son Scott, who passed away in 2017 of lung and liver cancer. This is the story of that departure. This will be Blackstone’s sixteenth book published by Resource Publications.