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Praise for House Calls with Jesus

House Calls with Jesus is a remarkable text. I read it from cover to cover in one sitting with tears in my eyes and a prayer in my heart. This book is gritty and graceful. Death isn’t easy and this text doesn’t shy away from pain and desolation. But, it is ultimately joyful in tone, joyful because on every page we discover that God’s love, and the love we have for each other, is stronger than death, and that nothing, not even death and debilitation, can separate us from the love of God. I highly recommend this book for pastors, hospice chaplains, nurses and physicians, and family members of persons facing life-threatening and incurable illness. There is hope and it comes from walking through the valley of the shadow of death and knowing that God is with us.

Dr. Bruce G. Epperly

author, From Here to Eternity: Preparing for the Next Adventure and Experiencing God in Suffering: A Journey with Job, husband, father, grandfather, and pastor

My 14 years as a hospice social worker and mental health therapist – and my personal experiences with death – have taught me the significance of accepting the reality of impending death, completing relationships with important people in our lives, and surrendering to the love that is offered to us through Jesus.

In House Calls With Jesus, Dr. Lee captures the emotional and spiritual journey her patients face during their dying process. She weaves her own vulnerability and her humanness throughout her patients’ stories, exhibiting a role much larger than simply a physician following up on physical symptoms.

Dr. Lee honors her patients’ stories in this book just as she clearly honors their personhood during her home visits, offering guidance, encouragement, and comfort to our most vulnerable brothers and sisters. Through giving readers a glimpse of her own faith in action as she ministers to her ailing patients, Dr. Lee portrays a physician concerned with the most important aspect of her patients’ healing.

Julie G. Schmidt, LICSW

Pasco, WA, wife, mother, and counselor

In this world, there are few sacred spaces left. However, the space around and surrounding the severely ill and dying is one such space. There is something holy and special that happens when one enters a hospice room, or an ICU, or the bedroom chamber of a terminally ill person. We approach in silence, in reverence, sometimes in fear. For many of us, it is difficult to navigate this space and to know what should be said, what needs to be said, and when to simply be silent and let the space dictate the response. Dr. Jude Lee gives us a glimpse of what it means to engage in these sacred spaces, going on House Calls with Jesus and demonstrating for us the deep compassion, grace, and mercy that is required in these places. For anyone who wants to better understand ministry in these kinds of interactions, this book presents windows into the sanctuaries that are found in nursing homes, hospitals, and convalescent rooms all around us. You will be blessed by reading this.

Robert Martin

author The Caregiver’s Beatitudes, husband, father, software analyst, and blogger at Abnormal Anabaptist

House Calls with Jesus is like an old black and white silent movie. Stories shared in silence given life by artistic expression. The beauty of this book is that someone shares what it’s like to sit in silence, with compassion and patience listening to the sounds of life so rarely captured in spirit, not word. She then brings those intimate moments alive in her writing with artistic word choice for us to experience them in great detail. In a time when we are all about hustle and bustle and nonstop in doing, someone shows us the lost art of sharing life in stillness. Thank you for the reminder to slow down and be still, and to experience life in our hearts.

Renee Crosby

author The Fringe and Soup Kitchen for the Soul, wife, mother, and interior designer