She saw her mother die . . . twice. The first time Beverly Rose's mother died was on a beautiful March morning when she staggered into Beverly's room, jolting her from a sound sleep. "I don't feel well," her mother said, frantically. She almost made it back to bed before she collapsed.
Paramedics continued the CPR Beverly had started, and the hospital managed to keep her mother alive for nearly a month. Then in April, she died again--permanently.
A few months earlier, after a devastating illness had destroyed her health and forced her to give up a prestigious career and comfortable lifestyle, Beverly had moved to Florida, seeking care and solace from her adored Jewish mother. Now Beverly had lost everything. Even her mother.
Then, Beverly dreams of nervously breaking the news to her mother that she has found Someone, but the last person on earth--or in heaven--that her mother would ever accept . . .
This is the stirring yet humor-laced account of one woman's devastating losses--and glorious rebirth. In Mothers Never Die Beverly Rose tells the story of her amazing spiritual journey from Harvard to humility and how she not only survived but flourished, thanks to the Rabbi--who was no ordinary man of God . . .
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Reviewed by Edward Richstone (Hammond, Louisiana), October 07, 2002
When I was growing up Jewish in the New York City area, my ethnicity defined my entire secular world, but left me spiritually empty. To seek any value in another religion was heresy--an insult to the memory of martyred Jews throughout the ages and a danger to our future survival as a people. Years later, only after living in the Deep South, displaced from my Jewish moorings, did I get to know committed Christians and appreciate their personal relationship with God.
If only I had encountered a book like "Mothers Never Die" sooner! This masterpiece by Beverly Rose crystallizes both Jewish ethnicity and Christian faith through witty observations and poignant dialogue. Never losing sight of a profound mother-daughter relationship, this book manages to dramatize an entire family's Americanization over the course of three generations.
As a result of Beverly Rose's own physical suffering and transcendent conversion from Judaism to Christianity, the author, a Harvard-trained, doctoral-level clinical psychologist, is in an excellent position to offer comfort and joy, especially to those readers who continue to suffer from a loss of one sort or another...and who seek healing. Yes, another book about "overcoming," but so much more.
I heartily recommend that you read this book. It will be a blessing, a true gift to yourself...and one worth giving to others.
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