The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

The Five People you Meet in Heaven
Mitch Albom

"All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it all the time."

"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."

"Lost love is still love, Eddie. It just takes on a different form, that's all. You can't hold their hand... You can't tousle their hair... But when those senses weaken another one comes to life... Memory... Memory becomes your partner. You hold it...you dance with it... Life has to end, Eddie... Love doesn't."

This book taught me about many things... death, love, God/heaven, and life's unanswered questions. Everything happens for a reason, even though it might not feel like it at the time.God has a plan for all of us and everything will eventually come together and be told to you.

Eddie had a brave soul but he didn't think that he was anyone in life. When he eventually passed away, he ended up saving a little girls life. That is something to be proud of even if you don't know that you did that until later on. In heaven, Eddie gets to meet five people; who have been in his life before or who have sub-continuously been in his life. These people were there to greet him and answer all of his unanswered questions and why God gave him purpose in life. I definitely have unanswered questions already, even though I am only 23 years old. Why are we here on Earth? Why did God make me the person who I am today?

I would say that this novel isn't overly religious even though Albom talks about God and heaven a lot. This is a book that everyone should read in life, maybe it will help answer some of your unanswered questions already. You will be spiritually touched! The book is witty written with phrases that made me laugh and poems thrown in here and there. It made for a very interesting read. This won't be the last Mitch Albom book I will read!

God has purposes for us in life, even if it only means working as the burger boy at McDonald's, or to be a mistress, or a CEO of an oil and gas company, or just an ordinary man that gets by from day to day. Little things in life matter the most.

Until next time!

Rebekka.