Jill's Story: Climate Change: The Healing

By Patricia Grabow

Jill is a fourteen-year-old girl who goes through a near-death experience (NDE) after an auto accident in her hometown of Livingston, Montana. During her NDE, a mentor introduces Jill to a richer understanding about life and its relationship to aspects of her own life that she had not given much conscious thought to: inc

• Language: English
• Publisher: At One Press
• Release date: Jan 4, 2022
• ISBN: 9780989714655

Patricia Grabow

Patricia's clinical death experience was the beginning of a new life that at the time did not seem possible. Her earlier life had led her from upbringings in Montana to travels in Asia, high school in the Pacific, university in the West and Washington State, a first marriage in Washington DC, and a second chiefly in Alaska, where she worked in Native education in both Anchorage and small villages in the remote interior. Following the accident in London, Patricia returned to the U.S. and began to receive guidance that would lead her out of the tragedy and loss she had experienced before the accident, as well as the longing for the “love to the millionth power” she had during the accident, to the great beings around her who would assist her on the generation of the books she was to write, and to survival. Among them were the remarkable McArthur family, including Charlotte, who along with Christine Kauffman assisted Patricia with The Immortal Now; mentor Barbara McCormick, early editor Jay Booth, collaborator Rosie Porter, and final editor Cheryl McLaughlin. The story of the period after the accident is truly a story of love, salvation, and soul mates, as the writing had promised. Patricia, currently living in Montana with a master’s degree in education, is the mother of three sons (Chris, Tim, and the youngest, Rob, who was born at the end of the work on the first book). She is also a proud grandmother. Learn more about Patricia Grabow at: https://profiles.google.com/thegrabow

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Jill’s Story: Climate Change: The Healing

Copyright © 2022 by Patricia Grabow

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in, or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021925561

ISBN: 978-0-9897146-4-8 (Paperback)

ISBN: 978-0-9897146-5-5 (eBook)

Editor: Larry Coffman

Jill’s Story, the sister work of Climate Change: The Healing, is dedicated to the unlimited life the earth supports, its seven billion people, and the love that sustains it all.

Contents

Event One

Event Two

Event Three

Event Four

Event One

It was a morning that the sun , announcing its omnipotence, filled the sky with a pink/purple luminescence. Its beams as tendrils burst out at the horizon seeking to destroy the complacent darkness wherever it might be found; knowing its own potential, the sun forced color, power and Presence on the entire earth as far as the eye could see. Everyone in Livingston, Montana who got up early that morning will never forget that sunrise.

It was not limited and shined gloriously on a new hospital in the community where a young girl lay motionless. It caressed her with its rays coming in the window turning her bed, walls, and curtains a brilliant rose.

Ignoring the sunrise and looking down on a helpless teenager, Vanessa, a young nurse asked her supervisor, If we stopped the respirator, would she die??

Vanessa carefully added, You know we need it for our COVID-19 patients? The hospital is under pressure.

I don’t know, but we can’t give up on her. That I do know.

Jill was lucky. Those around her took a careful and thoughtful approach to each of its patients.

The Livingston Hospital Jill was in was new. It had been designed to look like a series of giant Tudor buildings, standing proud in front of the 11,000-foot-tall Absaroka Mountains. Livingston is 52 miles north of Yellowstone.

When Livingston Health Care (LHC) was completed, the pandemic of 2020 hit.

It was real.

And Jill, the choice for a respirator, was real.

Vanessa, the nurse, could see that Jill was slender, with long red hair and surprisingly few freckles.

What they didn’t know, almost tragically, was Jill, the person. She had run track in junior high and always had loved the feel of Livingston’s intermittent wind in her hair, as she wound along the Yellowstone River. Motion was her middle name: playing, walking, wrestling and taking her brother down, dancing with her dad whenever they went to line-dancing classes at the Livingston Community Center, swimming in the local outdoor pool in the summer, skiing at nearby Bridger Bowl in the winter, skating—and laughing.

She was a young seeker. She had attended almost every church in town and read everything she could get her young hands on: The Tao, the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita—anything to find out what she was to do with her life.

They didn’t know that Jill’s family was everything to her. Their discussions at dinner, their limited travels, their love of books, their hilarious laughter over the slightest, silly comment.

In spite of the wind outside, now Jill lay motionless at LHC, clad in the kind of