Goodbye Is Not Goodbye

My Healing Journey Through Grief Into His Marvelous Light

Michelle is an author who gained a deeper understanding of life and death while trusting God through her grief journey. By sharing her writings, travels, and divine revelations from God she received along the way, Michelle looks to inspire others on a similar journey.

Author Bio

After losing her husband in 2020, Michelle Meek found grace, beauty, and healing through grief and writes about her experiences to help others heal.  As a native of the Appalachian region, she appreciates the beauty of creation and looks to God for strength and guidance.  She is a mother and grandmother and enjoys travel adventures and time spent with her family.  She has spent the last twenty-two years helping others through her work in higher education. Michelle’s loss has heightened her compassion and her desire to help others on a similar grief journey. She continually looks to God for inspiration and encouragement and desires to, in turn, inspire and encourage others. 

Grief breaks us. It shatters our very existence. The temptation to give in to loneliness and depression is ever-present. Will we survive the loss of our loved ones? Our response to grief's deep pain and anguish is crucial to our existence. Through trust and faith in a higher power--God, may we discover the unfamiliar road ahead contains the encouragement and comfort needed to navigate the unchartered territory of grief.

Goodbye Is Not Goodbye is an inspirational Christian memoir detailing the author's nineteen-month journey after losing her husband in 2020 to the rare diseases of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) and Corticobasal Degeneration (CBD) sent her world into a tailspin.  The search for healing through the deep pain and anguish of grief led her on a path of continual divine revelations from God through such unique and creative avenues as dreams and landscapes. The Goodbye Is Not Goodbye journey includes the re-creation of an "Out West" trip and vividly portrays how God used the beauty of nature to facilitate healing. The author found adventure in the new open road set before her through faith and trust in God and His divine revelations along the way.  

Goodbye Is Not Goodbye illustrates how God navigated life after loss from a broken state of despair to one of assurance of purpose and continuity of life. The author learned to listen to the voice of God and to lean on the Holy Spirit and the Word for comfort, counsel, guidance, and growth as she traveled from darkness into His marvelous light. The purpose of Goodbye Is Not Goodbye is to share these divine revelations with others on a similar grief journey.  The author longed for God's help through grief, and she found it. She trusts that her story will shine a light and become a beacon of hope for others.

God can give a Happy Memory in the midst of life’s storm. Trust Him!

Photographer bios

Brennen and Beth Meek are a creative couple residing in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains with their daughter.  As a freelance photographer/videographer, Beth operates Ginger Snaps Photography & Video, primarily specializing in newborn, wedding, and portrait services.  For Goodbye Is Not Goodbye, Beth photographed Michelle’s book cover and website portraits.

Brennen is an audio engineer by trade, musician, and leader of the band called Collective.  In addition, Brennen and Beth discovered a passion for landscape photography during their travel and hiking adventures shortly after the loss of Brennen's father. Goodbye Is Not Goodbye includes photography from two of their travel adventures.

Give to God the open road set before you. Allow Him to direct your path. In Him, Adventures await!

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But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Isaiah 40:31 (KJV)