3. Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992), 186.
ELEVEN. An Old Man Sat by the Side of the Road . . .
1. Kevin Bennett, “Proud Volunteer: 100-Year-Old Keeps Serving Her Community,” Aberdeen News, November 6, 2011.
2. “Who Mentored Oprah Winfrey?” Who Mentored You, accessed December 11, 2012, http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/wmy/Celebrities/oprah_winfrey.html.
3. “The Mentor Leader Quotes,” Goodreads, accessed December 11, 2012, http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/13165457-the-mentor-leader-secrets-to-building-people-and-teams-that-win-consist.
TWELVE. The Unseen World Gathered . . .
1. Peter Fenwick and Elizabeth Fenwick, The Art of Dying (London: Continuum, 2008), 30.
2. Mona Simpson, “A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs,” New York Times, October 30, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-for-steve-jobs.html.
THIRTEEN. Trouble Was Bound to Come . . .
1. Chris Tiegreen, The One Year Walk with God Devotional: Wisdom from the Bible to Renew Your Mind (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2004).
2. Mark Batterson, Soulprint: Discovering Your Divine Destiny (Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2011), 40.
3. http://seekingspirit.ca/introducing-my-friend-carol-kent.
FOURTEEN. And the Challenge of His Life Loomed . . .
1. “Mother Teresa Quotes,” BrainyQuote, accessed December 16, 2012, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mother_teresa.html#jyD0tlMgFPFkvDdo.99.
2. Carol Zaleski, “The Dark Night of Mother Teresa,” First Things, May 2003, http://www.firstthings.com/article/2007/08/the-dark-night-of-mother-teresa-42.
SIXTEEN. Happily Ever After . . .
1. Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1992), 162.
2. C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press [with permission of HarperCollins], 1984), 210–11.
3. Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (Grand Rapids, MI: Discovery House, 1995).
SEVENTEEN. And If He’s Not Gone, He Lives There Still . . .
1. Rosalie Maggio, How They Said It: Wise and Witty Letters from the Famous and Infamous (Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000), 92.
2. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, The Definitive Edition (New York: Bantam, 1997), 208.
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Macomber, Debbie.
Once upon a time : discovering our forever after story / Debbie Macomber.
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1. Christian life. 2. Autobiography—Religious aspects—Christianity. 3. Storytelling—Religious aspects—Christianity. 4. Autobiography—Authorship. I. Title.
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Debbie Macomber, Once Upon a Time: Discovering Our Forever After Story
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