Jamie Kern Lima

And maybe they never share it with anyone else, but it's their own kind of private process of doing that. How do you know... How do you know for sure that Karen is with you and has been with you through this process of the book?

And maybe they never share it with anyone else, but it's their own kind of private process of doing that. How do you know... How do you know for sure that Karen is with you and has been with you through this process of the book?

You know, one of my friends, Erwin McManus, who is a pastor, he was giving this keynote speech right before me at an event. And his whole keynote was on quantum entanglement. And I'm thinking, what is quantum entanglement? But I'm listening to the whole thing. And he said something so powerful. He said that he believes that...

You know, one of my friends, Erwin McManus, who is a pastor, he was giving this keynote speech right before me at an event. And his whole keynote was on quantum entanglement. And I'm thinking, what is quantum entanglement? But I'm listening to the whole thing. And he said something so powerful. He said that he believes that...

Because we grieve and because we feel so deeply for people we've loved and lost that once they're gone, they're gone in physical form, that he believes it's proof of eternal life. The fact that we still feel so deeply. And he talks about like resonance between souls and how it's proof that their soul... Um, and that there's eternal life based on how strong we feel for somebody.

Because we grieve and because we feel so deeply for people we've loved and lost that once they're gone, they're gone in physical form, that he believes it's proof of eternal life. The fact that we still feel so deeply. And he talks about like resonance between souls and how it's proof that their soul... Um, and that there's eternal life based on how strong we feel for somebody.

And if that person just disappeared, that we wouldn't feel that connection or that sense of they're here or they're with me or they're, they're, you know, showing me a sign or giving me a nudge or speaking to me or speaking to my wife or any of those things. And it was so profound the way he explained it.

And if that person just disappeared, that we wouldn't feel that connection or that sense of they're here or they're with me or they're, they're, you know, showing me a sign or giving me a nudge or speaking to me or speaking to my wife or any of those things. And it was so profound the way he explained it.

He explained it far more eloquently than I just did, but he explained it and I had never thought of it that Right.

He explained it far more eloquently than I just did, but he explained it and I had never thought of it that Right.

That we're so deeply connected emotionally and in other ways that the essence of their essence and our essence, he explained, have like united, as you would say, we're we're in membership with and and how it's proof that even if they are not here in physical form, that that that their soul is still there and that there's eternal life. eternal life.

That we're so deeply connected emotionally and in other ways that the essence of their essence and our essence, he explained, have like united, as you would say, we're we're in membership with and and how it's proof that even if they are not here in physical form, that that that their soul is still there and that there's eternal life. eternal life.

It's okay. I think so many people are in this point in their own faith journey. I have so many friends this way. I was raised going to church, and then I spent probably, I don't know, a couple of decades just sort of like inside myself doubting God exists.

It's okay. I think so many people are in this point in their own faith journey. I have so many friends this way. I was raised going to church, and then I spent probably, I don't know, a couple of decades just sort of like inside myself doubting God exists.

And I remember I was in graduate school in New York City and around so many people that don't have faith at all or think that if you do believe in God, you're just not that smart. And I was around that all the time and also around a lot of different faiths.

And I remember I was in graduate school in New York City and around so many people that don't have faith at all or think that if you do believe in God, you're just not that smart. And I was around that all the time and also around a lot of different faiths.

And I started to sort of question, hmm, like, you know, and I remember going through God doubt and I went to, this is years later, I went to my first ever therapist about something completely different and was telling her I doubt God exists and I'm doubting God exists. And she said to me, well, what makes you think he can't handle your doubt? Um, and I'm like, what do you mean?

And I started to sort of question, hmm, like, you know, and I remember going through God doubt and I went to, this is years later, I went to my first ever therapist about something completely different and was telling her I doubt God exists and I'm doubting God exists. And she said to me, well, what makes you think he can't handle your doubt? Um, and I'm like, what do you mean?

And she's like, well, if he, and I don't even know if she believes at all, by the way, she said, if he created the entire universe, like what makes you think he can't handle your doubt? She goes, why don't you try praying and telling him, uh, you doubt he exists and to prove you wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt that he does. And I'm like, OK. And so and so this went on for a couple of years.

And she's like, well, if he, and I don't even know if she believes at all, by the way, she said, if he created the entire universe, like what makes you think he can't handle your doubt? She goes, why don't you try praying and telling him, uh, you doubt he exists and to prove you wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt that he does. And I'm like, OK. And so and so this went on for a couple of years.