Joshua's Ring is a story of hope...belief...faith...and most of all love, the kind of love that transcends death. Rose and Joe Wilker's reason for wanting this story told is to help others who have "lost" loved ones realize that they have not been lost at all, but rather have moved to a different place - a place where they are free of the anxieties of this world and in a new home where they can still be with us and more importantly also with God.   

To download a PDF of the Introduction to Joshua's Ring, please click on this link:  Joshua's Ring Introduction

In the early spring of 2005, there was a message on my answering machine from Rose Wilker, a friend from the elementary school my children had attended years before. Rose and her husband Joe had lost their eldest son, Josh, to leukemia a few years before the call. We had not kept in touch much after that.

I procrastinated in returning the call. It was a busy time for me. I was working full time, serving on several non-profit boards and committees, helping my own family through a time of grieving after the death of my sister-in-law, and as the days went by, I forgot to call Rose.

Then one day I was rearranging a book shelf when a small piece of paper floated off the shelf and onto my foot. It was Joshua's memorial card.

I called Rose immediately.

She asked me to write a book about Josh, about the strange and beautiful signs that were being sent to them letting them know that Josh was okay and in many ways still with them.

I began the book in the summer of 2006, and then I had to put it away. I started a new and very demanding job, and time slipped away without me going back to the manuscript.

Now I am committed to finishing it. I don't know if it will be a full-length book or an article, but it will be finished. Joshua has been patient long enough.