The Healing Basket - Clarissa Rudolph-Hastings

The Healing Basket, set in northern New Mexico in the 1970s, is about an older woman, Nevaeh, and a young girl, Mary Grace, who befriend one another. Nevaeh teaches Mary Grace how to cope with sorrow by telling stories about mementos she keeps  in a basket. Together, they celebrate their time and  learn that we exist through memories left behind. Mary Grace  accepts the things she cannot change as an opportunity to build
 her hope, her faith, her strength, and her understanding about  why she is on this journey. Nevaeh helps Mary Grace see the  spirit of our loved ones in special moments that are embraced and remembered. When Nevaeh shares the essence of her life in The Healing Basket Mary Grace learns her greatest lesson.  It's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
Ultimately, love never dies.