No Journey Back

What do you do when there is no turning back?For Linda Martin, that moment came with a diagnosis of stage-three thyroid cancer. There would be no journey back to the days before the lump in her neck and no undoing the news that shook her family. There was only the road ahead, and the God who promised to walk it with her.In No Journey Back, Linda shares her battle from the first biopsy through surgery and radioactive treatment. But this is far more than a cancer memoir. On the operating table, she found herself standing at the Portal to Heaven, speaking directly with God and surrounded by music unlike anything she had ever heard. She came back changed forever.Woven through her journey are the moments that shaped her faith long before the diagnosis. She tells of a childhood in an Appalachian coal-mining town, a grandfather healed through the prayers of church elders, Christmas on the mission field in South America, and generations of family who taught her to trust God in every season.Tender, honest, and often warmly funny, No Journey Back is a testimony of God's faithfulness. If you are walking through a dark valley of your own, you will find strength in these pages and the assurance that you never take the journey alone.