A One-Sided Coin

"I have made you, I will carry you, I will sustain you and I will rescue you."

     Jim Metcalf heard these words as a soft whisper in the months after his wife's death.

     Jim and Sandy met and fell in love at the age of fourteen, beginning sixty-three inseparable years as a two-sided coin. After   

fifty-five years of marriage Sandy received a diagnosis of inoperable brain cancer which took her life within two weeks. Shocked and angry, Jim felt unable to function alone in the world. Was there a way for him to go on living? Was there a way to build on their lifelong love, or was he now a useless one-sided coin?

     Jim was tossed into the storms of grief just as COVID began to bring isolation and further losses. A One-Sided Coin is Jim's story of loss, grief and healing through the help of others. Led by the soft whisper, Jim found friends as well as strangers who threw him lifelines from the one-sided coin of God's grace.