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"Those struggling to understand the ways of God can be
encouraged by reading of this family that struggled before them. The story
of Dawson's coming to love and faith will remain as his gift to the world."
Thomas M King, S.J., Professor of Theology, Georgetown University
Andrea Bell is a woman determined to fulfill her son's
vision that everyone
know his story. What her 27-year-old son had learned about life during his
three-month stay in intensive care waiting for a heart transplant was
something he strongly believed would someday be of benefit to others. But
where had this unexpected belief of Dawson's come from? Where had his
journey into the doctor-induced-sedation taken him for nearly a month that
had given him such insight?
During that period, this mother was on a journey of her own
that led her back to her Catholic roots. The Bell family's belief in science
and medicine was being tested time and again, for they were confronted by
medical mysteries; questions the doctors could not seem to answer.
However, not all questions go unanswered: Did Dawson know
something more than we can imagine? He said he knew his story was going to
help others. His words have proven to be incredibly prophetic. This
newly-released book has already begun to touch others in many astounding
ways. And the one, usually unanswerable, question that all who face tragedy
cry out is, "Why, God, why did this happen?" Yet this question, too, is
ultimately answered for the author.
Her account of her experience is recorded with great
accuracy and detail and is told with candor and a very special love born out
of a mother's promise to her son. It poignantly chronicles the trials of a
family, a restoration of faith, and the discovery that things do happen for
a reason.
Bell autographs her books with the word "believe."
Dawson's Gift is written with such honesty and conviction, it is
difficult to imagine one reading it and not coming away believing. It is a
story that will change each of those who experience it and will not soon be
forgotten.
Dawson's Gift
By Andrea Bell
Odonata, LLC, Novato, CA
Publication Date: January, 2003
Hardcover, 574 pages $24.95
ISBN#0-9717206-1-4
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