"In my Christian upbringing, I had not been taught about 'past lives, ' but after Jesus healed Linny, my map of reality had to change. I had asked Jesus to heal me from my persistent terror about being 'different' from the people around me. That was when Jesus showed me Linny's death. As a young black slave, she had tried to run away from the plantation where she lived and had been captured and killed by a mob of white men with faces full of hate. After I remembered the story of Saul's conversion in Acts 9 and knew that Jesus can change hating faces, then my fear of being 'different' went away. Linny's story is just one example of the work Jesus did in me to lay at rest the unhealed fears and sorrows from my past-life traumas that had been putting a burden on my present life."

In her seven-book series Improbable Journeys, Mary Frothingham tells how Jesus healed 26 messy, tragic past lives that have been part of her soul's journey. In this first book, she tells about six of these past-life healings. The central message of the series is that Jesus does not give up on any of us. He hears all our earnest prayers and answers them in his own way and time, even if it takes more than one lifetime to do so. A hopeful message for all generations.