Grief is one of those things that changes you. It’s heavy, it’s messy, and it doesn’t come with a guidebook. One day, you think you’re doing okay, and the next, you’re back in that dark place, missing someone so badly it hurts to breathe. That’s why Elizabeth Grace Harris’s book Letters to Heaven feels so real. It doesn’t sugarcoat the pain. It sits with you in it, but it also gently shows you there’s a way through.
Elizabeth didn’t start out planning to write a book. She began by writing a letter to her deceased grandfather, to God, and other loved ones she lost. Some were more polished, others were raw. The letters were words spilling onto paper because she needed somewhere to put her grief. Over time, they became more than just a private journal. They turned into a passage of healing and discovery. And that journey is what she shares in Letters to Heaven.
Grief and the Search for Love
When you lose someone, you realize quickly that love doesn’t just disappear. It lingers. It aches. But sometimes it also makes you ask bigger questions. Where does love go when someone is gone? How do we carry it? Can we still feel connected?
Elizabeth’s letters explore all of that. She writes honestly about the longing, the emptiness, and the anger, too. But what stands out is how her search through grief led her to a deeper kind of love, not the kind that comes and goes with circumstances, but a Love that feels eternal. She calls it True Love, and she discovered it by turning inward, by opening her heart to God in a way she hadn’t before.
The book resonates with so many people. It makes us realize that the Love we crave can’t really be lost, because it doesn’t come from outside us—it comes from a Source that is within us, that can NEVER leave us.
A Conversation You Didn’t Know You Needed
Reading Letters to Heaven doesn’t feel like reading a book. It feels like you’ve stumbled into someone’s private journal and found pieces of your own story written there. The letters are tender, sometimes heartbreaking, but always honest.
If you’ve ever felt like no one understands what you’re going through, this book feels like sitting with a friend who gets it. Elizabeth doesn’t hand you a five-step plan to heal. She doesn’t try to tie everything up neatly. Instead, she shows you her own messy process, and somehow, that makes you feel less alone in yours.
From Religion to Relationship
Another thing to love about this book is how it shows the shift from seeing God through the lens of religion to experiencing the Source of all creation personally. Elizabeth began her journey rooted in the Christian faith she grew up with. But as her grief deepened, so did her search. The book takes you along as she moves from following old rules, expectations and paradigms, to discovering a God of Love who lives within her.
Many of us, whether religious or not, have moments where we realize the answers we were handed don’t satisfy the ache inside us. Letters to Heaven doesn’t push you toward one belief system. It simply points you back toward Love, the kind that feels universal and unshakable.
Why This Book Matters?
We live in a world that teaches us fear, that tells us to keep moving, to stay busy, to “get over it.” But grief doesn’t work like that. Healing takes time, and sometimes it takes seeing someone else’s story to remind us that it’s okay to slow down and feel.
Letters to Heaven matters because it permits us to grieve honestly, while also holding onto hope. It reminds us that love doesn’t die, and that even in the most broken seasons, we are not abandoned. For anyone who has lost someone, for anyone who has been let down by the shallow ways society defines love and perpetuates fear, this book feels like a breath of air when you’ve been holding your breath far too long.
Final Thoughts
Reading the book, you’ll understand that Letters to Heaven doesn’t pretend grief is easy. It doesn’t pretend answers come quickly. Rather, it walks with you through the questions, through the tears, and toward a quiet discovery: that Love is still here.
If you’re grieving, if you’re heartbroken, or if you’re just tired of searching for love in all the wrong places, this book might speak to you. Not with loud promises or perfect solutions, but with the gentle truth that you’re not alone, and that there is a Love bigger than the pain.
Elizabeth Grace Harris has turned her loss into a gift for others. Letters to Heaven is to see your own pain differently, to open your heart, and to trust that healing is possible.
Sometimes the books that touch us most deeply aren’t the ones with all the answers, but the ones that make us feel less alone in the questions. Letters to Heaven is one of those books.