Back to Front

Publisher Marketing: This story is about a love affair that starts in heaven and continues to be played out on earth. The LDS Church's belief is that a person's Spirit preexists in heaven, and a choice is made in heaven to come to earth and inhabit a human body so as to advance in striving to become more like our Father God. Mike Edwards and Kim Martin met on earth, in a wedding party for each other's best friend: Kim's best friend, Beth Franks, and Mike's best friend, Michael Youngblood. It was the summer of the start of their university senior year, and they all had high hopes for life ahead. With newfound love, Mike and Kim were particularly soaring on the wings of love and invincible in their approach to life and living. I attended her graduation ceremony and saw Kim walk across the platform and receive her diploma, after which I never saw her again. The woman who carved her initials on my heart was gone. Why? It was a long time before I was able to recover from that calamity, if I ever have to this day. Many years (forty-five to be exact), many miles (tens of thousands), many adventures, and many accomplishments later, I again held Kim in my arms for the most gloriously and incredible feeling of love I have ever experienced. We were one again to continue our earthly sojourn in love and experience. Heaven bound! Kim had a skin cancer that her dermatologist said was the worst case he had seen, but she kept on with treatments. I prayed for her daily. She said that as I prayed for her, she could feel those prayers. A social train wreck caused by Mike once again parted Kim and me. This resulted in a restraining order being filed by Kim, preventing me from ever seeing her again. In the meantime, a catastrophic accident of a broken pelvic bone had Kim hospitalized. At a local Fourth of July ceremony, I saw her, and she looked grim-round shouldered, stooped, and needing a walker and an attendant to get about. It broke my heart that I couldn't approach her. That afternoon, I called to ask a sorority sister how she was. She said it will be a year and half for her to recover from that break. I called Beth Youngblood and told her. Beth said it was all over between Kim and me, and she added emphatically, "Don't think about her, and in particular, don't even pray for her anymore." Needless to say, I continued to pray, as well I did other things. October 2 (two months later), I saw her again in a supermarket checkout line-tall, erect, square shouldered, drop-dead gorgeous, no walker, no attendant, and with no effects of having been ill! Back to Front articulates something the world has not seen before or been told in story form: about the way it came about-this miraculous healing of Kim Martin. It is a breakthrough in medicine, harnessing earth's energy that has never been done before. Further explanation will have to await legal processes-patent and possibly other protection before revealing it all. Contributor Bio:  Ross, Michael MICHAEL ROSS is an award-winning journalist and the author, co-author, and collaborator of more than 32 books for Christian families, including a Gold Medallion winner "BOOM: A Guy's Guide to Growing Up, " and a bestselling parenting guide "What Your Son Isn't Telling You". Michael is the former editor of Breakaway, a national magazine for teen guys published by Focus on the Family. Today, he oversees Back to the Bible's book publishing efforts. He and his wife Tiffany live in Lincoln, Nebraska, with their son Christopher.