The Healing Journey

July 14, 2024

“God speaks to their spirits in a way no one else ever has as He prepares to call them home.”
— Trudy Harris, RN

Trudy Harris spent much of her life caring for the dying during their last days. As a Hospice nurse, she was familiar with those final hours and moments, and her work led her to an incontrovertible conclusion: We do not die alone.

She witnessed so many cases to support this belief that she collected them in a best-selling book titled, “Glimpses of Heaven: True stories of hope & peace at the end of life’s journey.”

“When patients and friends who were dying would say to me, ‘Today is my day’ or ‘I saw my name on the marker’ or ‘I heard them call my name’ or ‘My son is here with me now; he said it’s time to go,’ at first I simply did not understand,” she wrote. “When many others told me about seeing angels in their rooms, being visited by loved ones who had died before them, or hearing beautiful choirs or smelling fragrant flowers when there were none around, I assumed it was the result of the medications they were taking or possibly dehydration. Surely the visions could not be real. But when others who were dying and not on medication and not dehydrated were saying the same things, I started to listen, really listen.”

One patient said he was afraid to die lying down and asked her to hold him while he was dying, and she did. Before he passed, he told her, “Trudy, there is no such thing as time. Dying is like walking from the living room into the dining room, there are no beginnings or endings.”

After hearing countless stories, she came to one conclusion: “Their experiences are as varied and unique as the persons themselves, and are shared with an openness and confidence that can only be explained by their anticipated and imminent meeting with God. He speaks to their spirits in a way no one else ever has as He prepares to call them home.”

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