Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Amanda MacKenzie, author of the new From Grief to Healing.
When our three children were young, we would often drive past an old green school bus that had a bold FOR SALE sign across the windscreen. Many times, I'd convince my patient husband to stop so I could admire it and talk to them all about how great it would be to buy that bus: to home-school and travel around Australia for a year or more. The idea may have been seeded by many happy holidays of mine in a caravan with mum and dad and my four siblings—long, hot summers, beautiful beaches, and carefree fun.
That old school bus looked like it had seen better days, and even though I