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by Christian Editing Services (Editor), Christian Editing Services (Illustrator), Sheila K. Campbell (Author)
Justin Campbell was an active, out-going, five-year-old boy with red hair and freckles. A scar running the length of his chest was the only indication that this happy little boy had been born with a congenital heart defect. Although he was only five, Justin already had two younger brothers and a little sister on the way. His young parents, Robert and Sheila Campbell, found great pleasure in caring for their growing family. But when Justin was left in a coma with severe brain damage from complications following open-heart surgery, his mother was left struggling to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. In this poignant story, Sheila recounts her struggle to make sense of the intense heartbreak and hardships that devastated their lives. Follow her in this journey of faith as God uses the handicaps of her young son to open her eyes to the handicaps that lay hidden in her own heart and, in the process, bring happiness and healing to a broken heart.
Author Biography
Sheila K. Campbell, born and raised in the West Texas Panhandle, graduated from Hale Center High and married her high school sweetheart, Robert Campbell, just months after graduation. She and her husband were blessed with four children including their oldest son, Justin, who was left severely handicapped at age five. Sheila began homeschooling in 1991 and continued homeschooling as a single parent after the death of her husband in 2001. She also continued to care for her special needs child at home until his death in 2004. She has been a regular contributor to the Texas Homeschool REVIEW and The Old Schoolhouse magazines for several years. Sheila lives outside the small West Texas town of Hale Center where she enjoys the tranquility of country living and pens her thoughts at www.pausingtopraise.com.
