Gracie's Secret

by Jill Childs

That’s the thing about faith. It isn’t about proof. It’s about making a choice. Choosing to believe.

No one else can ever be your mother. Not even death can take that from me. And although no one else could ever replace Catherine, Ella loved you. She cared for you as if you really were her own. I’m grateful to her and to Richard too. The three of you learned to be happy and found joy in each other as a family, despite all the suffering that went before.

And you’ll understand, finally, why I jumped without hesitation into the river that day and why, my love, you would too, to save your own daughter’s life.