Lori Hoflen

Heaven is Near when a Child Dies: One Mother's Choice to Embrace Her Son's Spiritual Life While Grieving His Physical Death. Lori Hoflen

What does a mother do when her child dies and her grief is so painful that she wants to die as well? Lori Hoflen lay in that valley of the shadow of death, yet she needs to help her nine other children cope with the death of their beloved baby brother. The creative ways she brings her family together to honor their brother, and celebrate his life, could only have come from God. Her love and insight will be the example many families will use when they, too, experience the death of a loved one.