Charles, as it turned out, was not.' Cooper believes she overheard these snippets of Charles's conversations with God, chronicling them through her first year of widowhood in this witty, bittersweet collection.
#HEY IWORD BY LOSS TO A NEW FRIEND SERIES#
In this heartfelt memoir and series of dialogues, recent widow Cooper copes with her husband's sudden death by imagining the conversations her larger-than-life spouse might be having with God: 'I was done talking to God. Charles was always bigger than life, and his presence, his love, his humor, and these conversations were just as real after his death.įor better, for worse, Becky started scribbling down what she was overhearing in heaven. In the following year, Becky learned that the connection with someone you love doesn’t cease with death.
He and Becky had been married almost 39 years. Emergency open heart surgery was followed by complications, including acute respiratory distress syndrome, pneumonia, and various lung infections. Twelve days later, despite hundreds, maybe thousands, of prayers, Charles died. He was sure it was nothing, but the company nurse, who just happened to be in the office that day, heard what happened and insisted on calling 911 as a precaution. Wednesday, November 14, Charles caught Becky at her desk, calling just to let her know that he’d had some pain radiating down his back.
Since he would be out of town, their granddaughters and Becky had made him a cake and celebrated before he left on that Sunday. Monday, November 12, was his 58th birthday. Sunday, November 11, 2007, Becky Cooper watched her husband Charles drive out of sight, heading from their Nashville condo to his office and apartment in Atlanta.
#HEY IWORD BY LOSS TO A NEW FRIEND FULL#
An “accidental masterpiece” taken from author Rebecca Cooper’s notes, each conversation between Charles and God is full of joy, empathy, and the revelation that while we may not live forever, our memory and love are eternal. is a rare narrative of the beauty of life and the endlessness of love, all told from the perspective of intimate, humorous and poignant conversations between Charles Cooper and God.
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