The Voice That Calls You Home: Inspiration for Life's Journeys is a poignant book from Reverend Andrea Raynor, a hospice chaplain who has spent years helping patients and their families navigate the uneven waters of sickness and death. Raynor has written these essays through the years of her advising people at one of the most vulnerable times of their lives.

Raynor’s experience ranges from the heartbreaking loss of her six-year old friend from an aneurysm to helping emergency workers find and identify 9/11 victims, and then help their families learn to cope with unimaginable loss. With heart-warming examples of the power of the human spirit, Raynor’s book can help readers help themselves and others when facing the ultimate challenge of death.

An easy read provided you have a tissue handy, The Voice That Calls You Homes speaks to readers with tact and conviction to make the final journey a bit easier for all concerned. Capable of making even the most stalwart person teary-eyed, ultimately this book is truly a gift to readers for its portrait of how to rise above the unjustness of illness and tragic sudden death.