"the first phone call from heaven"

It's amazing how one of the first blog posts I started writing for 2014 has turned into one that I kept meaning to get back to but did not. Weeks turned into months and here we are in August and I am just now getting back to it.

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One of my goals is to read at least 52 books in 2014 (average of one per week). You can see a partial list of the books I have read in an earlier post at Books - Borrow or Buy (Update: I have now read 54 books so I can say that at least one of my goals for the year has been completed 8/2014. I'll post an updated list at the end of the year). My first completed book of the year is one my husband and son gave me for Christmas: Mitch Albom's newest book "the first phone call from heaven." Just like his other books, once I started reading it I had trouble putting it down.

Without giving too much away, it was great to read another book that had some positive notes to it. People thinking that they were speaking to loved ones in heaven. Although there is a twist toward the end, the whole premise was that of helping people through the hurt of losing someone they cared about. Which of course got me to thinking who I would like to speak with if I could get a phone call from heaven.

First would be my grandmother. She passed when I was in middle school and to this day I miss her. We would spend hours together, not really doing much but just being near. Of course there are others family, friends and even people that I have never met that I believe would be interesting to talk to. I guess this idea of getting calls from heaven is like the question "If you could sit down and have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who would it be?"

So, who would you like to get a phone call from heaven from?