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A Grieving Nurse Finds Comfort in Her Painting

Inspired by a dream, a career nurse uses her avocation, painting, to alter the way she views her mother’s death from cardiac arrest twenty years earlier.

Linda Schadewald with the tools of her artistic trade

Inspired by a dream, Linda Schadewald, a career nurse, used her avocation, painting, to alter the way she viewed her mother’s death from cardiac arrest twenty years earlier. Utilziing a rainbow palette of vivid colors, she turned the zigs and zags of her mother’s cardiac readout into a depiction of her ascension into heaven, thereby transforming long-held grief into joy and exultation.

Since that day, as Linda explains in her story in the February-March 2017 edition of Mysterious Ways magazine, she has used her artwork for healing.

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