1/2 Circle Stone Bench

Miracles Happen! What does this all mean?  How do they know she’s an angel? The story begins and ends with Rose and a ½ Circle Stone Bench.  In two different generations, two different places, Rose taught both Martha and Matthew how to change their painful thinking 180 degrees.

Rose is a nurse in the local clinic attending to Martha, Adam’s wife, after the death of their baby.  Martha is overcome with grief and desperately needs a way out of her pain.  Rose offers Martha her own story of loss and God’s guidance through the pain by the act of forgiveness.   A generation later, a student named Rose is at the same school with a high school misfit named Matthew, who is struggling with his dysfunctional home life of lies and abuse.  Through Rose, who shares her own story of healing on a ½ circle stone bench in Maui, Matthew finds his voice and his future through forgiveness and gratitude.  Fifty years later the two different generations meet in Maui at a Hieau, or spiritual site, a ½ circle stone bench and healings occur which mirror Martha’s and Matthews.  Adam, the rancher and Louise, Matthew’s fiancée, come together weaving the distant parts into a whole and the miracle happens again.   The purpose of the story is to entertain the reader as well as demonstrate how the act of forgiveness, produces gratitude, serenity, peace and a freedom to serve God as an instrument of love and live our lives beyond our wildest dreams.