Rebecca: A Father's Journey from Grief to Gratitude

About this book

This is the story of the birth so-short life and death of Rebecca the baby daughter of Robert Jonas and Margaret Bullitt-Jonas. After months of anticipation she flashed through their lives like a comet and was gone. She lived less than four hours struggling for life under the glaring lights of an intensive care unit in a Boston hospital. To read Rebecca is to enter into a fathers dark night of the soul and his search for understanding and acceptance of this devastating loss a faith journey where all beliefs are tried in the fire. Anger grief and confusion are his companions as he wrestles with ultimate questions in the light of spiritual wisdom East and West. Through confronting his suffering bravely and with an open heart Jonas forges a new and exciting integration of Christian contemplative prayer Buddhist meditation and mans religious experience.