The Final Service
Published on 4. May 2016
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-1-61121-294-5 (ISBN)
Description
"He arrived unannounced, where and when she needed him most . . ."
Fortyyearold Sandy Richards is a successful music teacher, wife, and mother living a comfortable middle class life in a small Midwestern town. But behind her warm smile and easy laugh is a heavy burden she cannot release.
During her childhood, Sandy (or "Shadow" as just about everyone knew her) was inseparable from her largerthanlife father, a World War II hero she adored. Sandy followed him everywhere, hung on his every word, and loved him with all her heart as only a young child can. Sometimes loving him was more difficult than others, especially when he was there and then he was gone-right in front of her eyes without ever leaving the house.
For reasons she would not fully understand until many years later, something went horribly wrong and their relationship fractured, seemingly forever, when her father died of lung cancer on one long hot summer evening. His passing left Shadow alone to "sort through his warehouse of junk," an old storage facility jammed with emotions so overwhelming they balanced her on the edge of suicide. Then, when and where she needed him most, a stranger entered her life. And everything changed once more.
Inspired by real events, The Final Service offers a riveting story about human nature, emotional abandonment, and how unfulfilled dreams left a middleaged woman on the brink of personal destruction until one event forever altered the core of her belief system and her life. It is a story of faith, family, and forgiveness, and the realization that forces larger and more powerful than ourselves are at work in our lives in ways we are unable to fully understand.
Fortyyearold Sandy Richards is a successful music teacher, wife, and mother living a comfortable middle class life in a small Midwestern town. But behind her warm smile and easy laugh is a heavy burden she cannot release.
During her childhood, Sandy (or "Shadow" as just about everyone knew her) was inseparable from her largerthanlife father, a World War II hero she adored. Sandy followed him everywhere, hung on his every word, and loved him with all her heart as only a young child can. Sometimes loving him was more difficult than others, especially when he was there and then he was gone-right in front of her eyes without ever leaving the house.
For reasons she would not fully understand until many years later, something went horribly wrong and their relationship fractured, seemingly forever, when her father died of lung cancer on one long hot summer evening. His passing left Shadow alone to "sort through his warehouse of junk," an old storage facility jammed with emotions so overwhelming they balanced her on the edge of suicide. Then, when and where she needed him most, a stranger entered her life. And everything changed once more.
Inspired by real events, The Final Service offers a riveting story about human nature, emotional abandonment, and how unfulfilled dreams left a middleaged woman on the brink of personal destruction until one event forever altered the core of her belief system and her life. It is a story of faith, family, and forgiveness, and the realization that forces larger and more powerful than ourselves are at work in our lives in ways we are unable to fully understand.
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Language
English
Place of publication
El Dorado Hills
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 187 mm
Width: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-61121-294-5 (9781611212945)
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"Gary W. Moore is known worldwide as an awardwinning and critically acclaimed author, inspirational and motivational speaker, successful entrepreneur and accomplished musician.
As author of Playing with the Enemy, Gary tells the story of his father, Gene Moore and his remarkable life in baseball and war. Playing with the Enemy is inspiring readers around the world and will soon be a major motion picture. Gary also authored Hey Buddy: In Pursuit of Buddy Holly, My New Buddy John, and My Lost Decade of Music and The Final Service. Gary is also a contributing author to the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Gary has been featured in publications such as Entrepreneur Magazine, Selling Power Magazine, Sales and Marketing Management Magazine, Impromptu Magazine and Southwest Airlines' Spirit Magazine, and has been interviewed on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox.
Gary and Arlene have been married for 40 years and reside in Bourbonnais, IL.
Gary W. Moore is "America's Storyteller!""
As author of Playing with the Enemy, Gary tells the story of his father, Gene Moore and his remarkable life in baseball and war. Playing with the Enemy is inspiring readers around the world and will soon be a major motion picture. Gary also authored Hey Buddy: In Pursuit of Buddy Holly, My New Buddy John, and My Lost Decade of Music and The Final Service. Gary is also a contributing author to the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul.
Gary has been featured in publications such as Entrepreneur Magazine, Selling Power Magazine, Sales and Marketing Management Magazine, Impromptu Magazine and Southwest Airlines' Spirit Magazine, and has been interviewed on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox.
Gary and Arlene have been married for 40 years and reside in Bourbonnais, IL.
Gary W. Moore is "America's Storyteller!""