The fictional hero in the latest 366-page thriller escapes a cataclysm that kills hundreds, hundreds with untold stories, some cut off in chapter one.

In our Savior's story, He dies, as must all of us, and is buried. But then he appears alive and ascends into heaven, the heaven that awaits all God's children, even us.

My 87-year-old mother-in-law from Nowhere, Arkansas says,
"That's no story, that's the truth."

Self portrait with fireworks overlay.
Prayer after reading Michael Gruber's book, The Return.
Photo and prayer copyright 2013 by Danny N. Schweers.

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