First Phone Call from Heaven

by Mitch Albom

The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all.

You might think a person who brings proof of heaven would be embraced. But even in the presence of a miracle, the human heart will say, Why not me?

“Fear is how you lose your life . . . a little bit at a time. . . . What we give to fear, we take away from . . . faith.”

Knowing heaven is what heals us on earth.

1920, when Edison told a magazine that he was working on a “spirit phone,” a device that might let people one day speak to the dead. “I believe that life, like matter, is indestructible,” he said. “If there are personalities in another existence . . . who wish to get in touch with us in this existence . . . this apparatus would at least give them a better opportunity.”

Sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.