title: Saying Goodbye: A Biblical Worldview of  Death, Disease, and Disappointment
author: Jim Henson
description: Jim Henson, a former hospital administrator and practicing Registered Nurse, holds a BSN (1980) from Oklahoma Baptist University, an MS and MSN (1985) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and completed a postgraduate residency in Hospital Administration (1986) with Baptist Medical Center-Montclair, also in Birmingham. Jim is married to Sherri, his bride of thirty-nine years. They have seven children and live in rural central Alabama.
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  A Flicker of Hope
  
  
  
  
  
  Druid’s Curse 2
  
  
  
  
  
  Kegan Tulach already knew that monsters were real. He’d faced them. Watched in
  horror as they killed those he loved. Then run from them. It was his response
  for the past two years. But now, on his twenty-first birthday, running wasn’t
  an option. He had nowhere to go. It was time for him to face his worst
  nightmare.
  
  
  
  
  
  There weren’t many people who could do what Bjorn did. Fight monsters and live
  to tell the tale. It was a job thrust upon him as a kid. If he had known the
  true hell that would be cursed upon him, he would have preferred to die even
  though he’d only been fourteen at the time. Now, years later, he had hope that
  the curse would come to an end. The question was, would he choose the death
  he’d so desperately craved for more than a millennia, or would he do the one
  thing he swore he’d never d