This is a book of Miracles Not Red Sea partings, but miracles that happen when the sea of our personal circumstances fails to part. In the face of life’s stark realities and agonizing questions, God speaks powerfully through the powerless.

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. Bob, comatose since 1988, locked in with a bitterness that only God could see .

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and heal in a most wonderful way. Christine, seemingly a poster child for the Right to Die movement .

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until you met her and saw the life flowing from her. George, a death row inmate whose remarkable spirit redefines the words captivity and freedom.

John Samuel, the author’s beloved son, who in his short life taught his musician father what it means to sing heaven’s songs in this world. Conversations with the Voicelesstakes us inside a world populated by comatose and brain-damaged men and women, those who love them, and those who care for them.

In this world—the world in which he ministers as a musician—John Wessells has learned his most valuable les- sons from the most helpless people. He has found that the voiceless have much to say.

They teach us to live honest lives—honest with ourselves, honest with others, and honest with God. You will not read this book without weep- ing.

You also will not read it without laugh- ing, or tasting the joy and wonder of being alive. For beyond pain and sorrow, this book is most definitely about life—about the dawn that awaits us at the end of the long, dark night, and about the glory that seeks to overtake us even at midnight.

Some Questions Need More Than Answers. They’re questions born out of grief, and if you haven’t asked them yet yourself, you know someone who has.

The most aching question of all may be simply . .

. “Why?” Written out of John Wessells personal experiences ministering to the severely handicapped, Conversations with the Voiceless takes us to the real-world intersection of pain and faith.

Wessells walks us through the halls of the forgotten, into the rooms of the comatose, the brain-damaged, the wheelchair-bound . .

. and even into his own dark journey through the loss of his young son.

In simple, beautiful language, we learn what some of the world’s most helpless people can teach us about suffering and sorrow, the character of God, and what it takes to be fully alive. .