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In a way as undeniable as it was mysterious, Hyung Goo was more whole when he died than he had been at any other time in his life. It was not the sort of healing that we had hoped or asked for. How could we have asked for it, when we couldn't even imagine it? But it was real, more real than the shabby appearances that are so easy to mistake for reality, as real as new green leaves on a dying tree.

Condensed and excerpted with permission from Sing Me to Heaven by Margaret Kim Peterson. Used by permission of Brazos, a division of Baker Book House Company, copyright © 2003. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published in other media, or mirrored at other sites without written permission from Baker Book House Company.

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Sing Me to Heaven and My God and I are this month's selections for CT's Editor's Bookshelf. Elsewhere on our site, you can:

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Read an interview with Margaret Kim Peterson.

Read an excerpt from Lewis B. Smedes's My God and I.

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Peterson earlier wrote about her husband's death in a 2000 Christianity Today article. She also wrote about depictions of witchcraft in popular culture for our sister publication Books & Culture.

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