"Jazmin came fluttering into our home, speaking of healing and miracles. I didn't know how to tell her I didn't believe in that nonsense." Cindy Henson had jumped on a miracle train twenty-five years earlier, believing God was going to heal her young son of severe autism, and quickly jumped off with a suitcase full of bitterness. God had healed the bitterness, but she still didn't believe in miracles. From day one, soon-to-be daughter-in-law, Jazmin, who had been diagnosed with terminal adrenal cancer, declares she is holding out on a miracle from God. Cindy wonders if she has the fortitude to endure a life of believing in miracles and makes it her mission to help Jazmin accept that she is dying and the possibility of receiving no miracle at all. Then God invites Cindy to take out her hope-suitcase, pack up her mourning, and help Jazmin live the rest of her life believing in miracles. Through fundraisers, prayer chains, long hospital stays, and deep conversations about faith, Cindy learns from Jazmin that the best way to live a fragile life is with hope and belief that miracles still happen every day.
Suitcases from Heaven: A Mother's Hope Journey through Her Daughter-in-Law's Cancer helps caregivers and cancer victims understand that God knows the number of their days, and their life is not in the hands of the medical community but in His loving hands.
Jazmin came into Cindy's life like a breath of fresh air, talking about healing and miracles. Cindy didn't know how to tell her that she had stopped believing in such things long ago.
Twenty-five years earlier, Cindy had boarded the "miracle train," hoping that God would heal her young son from severe autism. When that miracle didn't come, she stepped off, carrying only bitterness. While God eventually healed her heart, her faith in miracles never returned.
From the moment her soon-to-be daughter-in-law, Jazmin, was diagnosed with terminal adrenal cancer, Jazmin was steadfast in her belief: she was holding out for a miracle from God. Cindy wasn't sure she had the strength to live in a world of hope again. In fact, she made it her mission to help Jazmin accept the reality that she might not get her miracle-that death might come without any divine intervention.
But then, God did something unexpected. He invited Cindy to reopen her heart, to unpack her suitcase of grief and doubt, and to help Jazmin live each day believing in miracles. Through fundraisers, prayer chains, hospital visits,