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As a single parent, Lisa’s world was her only son, Ryan. She loved him with all her heart and worked hard to provide him with a good home. Ryan grew into adulthood and soon started a family of his own.
Then, the unthinkable happened, Ryan died of an incurable condition in his brain. How could Lisa go on without him in her life?
Share Lisa’s journey through grief as she found hope and healing through God, and the love and support of family and friends.
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After two short years of marriage, Lisa found herself divorced and a single parent of their ten-month-old son, Ryan. To provide a home for him, she needed a sustaining career. She put herself through school to become a Registered Nurse. For many years she taught Nursing Assistant Training-which includes the five stages of grief.
As she began her new career, she searched for something else, and found it in a relationship with God. Lisa and her son began to fall in love with Jesus and deepen their knowledge and relationship with Him.
Ryan grew into adulthood, began a family of his own, and was completing a sheet metal journeyman program. He was enjoying family life. Lisa’s life changed at this time, too. She fell in love and married her soulmate, Jon. Life was good.
Then tragedy hit! Ryan fell ill with an incurable condition of his brain. In seven weeks, at the age of twenty-two, Ryan was gone. Could Lisa survive the pain of losing her only son? Would her training as a nurse help her now? Would her faith sustain her?
Share her journey as she traveled through her own five stages of grief. Her transparent view into the difficult times, and coming through them, will encourage all who read!
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| Weight | 8.10 oz |
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I know Lisa but never knew the entire story about Ryan. She is an amazing woman who shared her heart and soul through this book. I couldn’t put it down and read cover to cover in one day. She shares her experiences, struggles, heart breaking grief and also the strength that her faith gave her. Beyond that, she gives very wise advice to anyone going through the heartache and grief of losing a loved one. I admire her strength and grace with which she poured out her heart. My admiration for her has increased 100 fold. Highly recommend!
Thank you very much Cheri! I am glad my book touched you.
‘There’s Something Wrong With Ryan’ is an incredible journey of a mother’s loss of her only child with some real questioning of one’s faith in the midst of grief.
What a blessing that first time writer, Lisa Straight, could convey to others the reality of God’s promise within a very real timeline with the five stages of grief. The author paints a loving story that will make you laugh, cry and feel a renewed strength in your own faith and the healing process. Whether you are grieving or not, this true story will have you cheering for the human spirit that’s in all of us.
Thank you David for your kind and thoughtful words!
This book is quite a journey of highs and lows, filled with God’s grace, faithfulness and love. After I read the book I couldn’t help but think no one can understand this kind of grief but only the one who walked thru it, to experience the loss of a child an only child and be able to walk you thru this journey as Lisa did is a miracle in itself. I wept during the rawness of emotions written about Ryan and her excerpts of her journal were shared during this time.
This book will leave a mark on your heart one that will change how you see and care for your children and people inside your community and family. Powerfully transparent and difficult journey but filled with hope, joy and God’s love and care for us all!
Lynette, Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience of reading our story!
Lisa recounts an agonizing time in her life in the hopes that she can help others with similar journeys. While the pain never goes away, she is able to offer solace and hope to those in their own struggle for inner strength. This book is also very well written, and includes photos that help the reader identify with the family; a family just like yours and mine. Excellent job, LISA!!
Thank you Glenda for sharing your thoughts about my book. It is my hope that it will help others.
We all will experience circumstances in life that will bring us to our knees. It will be different for each of us but how will we respond to it? Lisa gives us an unexpectedly transparent view into her life with Ryan, then the years of processing the grief of his passing. Ryan was a beautiful and joyful person that we all miss but his mother knew him best.
Lisa’s story is compellingly written and instantly relatable. Whether you are grieving the loss of someone close to you now or will be in the future, this book can be a tool for healing.
John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Genesis 50:20 ” You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
Mitch, Thanks for your meaningful review of my book.