Grief and Consolation
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Grandpas Window
$19.00Add to cartEvery window at the hospital faces dull, gray buildings–except the one in Grandpa’s room.
Grandpa can see the ocean every day! When Daria visits, she and Grandpa look out at the beach, hoping they will build sandcastles and fly kites together again.This touching exploration of a child’s experience of loss offers an unexpected ending, encouraging creativity and self-expression in the midst of grief.
Grandpa’s Window addresses the grieving process, both as a family member approaches the end of life as well as after death. The book includes a note for adults by Dr. Sharie Coombes (www.drsharie.com), child and family psychotherapist, about how to support children who are grieving the loss of a loved one.
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Widows Hope : A Guide For Widows In Survival Mode
$16.95Add to cartA Widow’s Hope shares a unique story as a young widow with children who shares the raw, relatable ways she dug her way out of the trenches and back to the land of the living.
There are many books about widowhood and grief. While helpful when the time is right, the shock and the aftermath of such a traumatic experience can make it difficult to find the time and motivation to read them while surviving the daily obstacles that zap your energy.
Right now, the widow is too busy surviving funeral planning, endless calls and texts from family, tireless efforts to obtain the death certificate, meetings with social security, arrangements to be ironed-out with banks, mortgagors, and debts. Not to mention the practical things, like ensuring the children have been fed, arranging who will take them to school while you deal with the horrible details such as picking out his casket, or helping your children with things only you can help with?
And then it hits her, “How will I even tell them that their father is dead? They don’t even know what ‘dead’ means!” Just thinking of the unending list of things to be done can leave the widow feeling smothered and breathless. Now is not the time for a novel; now is the time for a survival book, because right now, that’s what the widow is doing– surviving.
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Grief On The Road To Emmaus
$29.95Add to cartIn Grief on the Road to Emmaus, experienced bereavement author and facilitatorBeth Hewettoffers help for people interested in walking with those who grieve and supporting their mourning. Using the story of the bereaved disciples walking with Jesus to Emmaus and personal grief vignettes, this message is grounded in Benedictine monastic values that emphasize love, mutuality, hospitality, listening, prayer, humility, action, and community. This readable guide introduces a ministry of consolation, complete with facilitator skills, practices, and strategies for healing to assist readers to accompany the bereaved compassionately, leading each other to hope after loss.
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Grieving Well : A Healing Journey Through The Season Of Grief
$18.99Add to cartDeath is a part of life. Even though it is a certainty, most of us are unequipped and ill-prepared for it.
When we consider the timeline of life; it is clear that life unfolds in a series of seasons. Each of those seasons has a beginning, middle, and end. It’s easy to celebrate birth and the start of a new life because with birth comes so much optimism, hope and joy! The majority of life takes place in the seasons of growing up and becoming an adult, becoming a parent and perhaps a grandparent; this part of life is typically busy and filled with activities and lots of distractions. The most difficult part comes at the end of life’s journey.
Whether the end comes suddenly or over a period of time, it comes with a sense of loss and emptinesss when we lose someone we love. According to the Faith Hospice website, a three-year study was conducted by Amerispeak and WebMD prior to COVID-19 in which they found that 57% of Americans are grieving in some way–the loss of a loved one, patients, human connection–at any given time. That means, if you’re walking down the street or shopping at the store, every other person you see is dealing with grief.
In Grieving Well, storyteller Terri DeBoer has teamed up with Janet Jaymin. It is from Janet’s personal journey as a grief counselor helping thousands of individuals and families that allows her to validate that what was will never be the same. These thoughts and feelings can be a complete sense of doom and gloom for the individual but through Grieving Well, they can realize that while grief cannot be cured, peace can be found.
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From Grief To Greatness
$15.99Add to cartHow do you make the worst day of your life into the best? Tanya Unkovich is ready to share the answer in From Grief to Greatness: The Art of Overcoming Adversity, a guide to rediscovering joy and meaning when loss, grief, and hardship have devastated your world.
In her first book, Unplanned Journey: A Triumph in Life and Death, Unkovich shared the story of her late husband’s experience with cancer and the tools she used to move forward after his death. Fourteen years later, From Grief to Greatness now dives even deeper into Unkovich’s life in a heartfelt expression of pain and healing. Tanya Unkovich embraces difficult topics with familiarity and faith, from caring for aging parents to facing life-altering illnesses to learning how to find love after loss. Unkovich brings experience, empathy, and hope to anyone walking a hard path. Her journey shows that there is always a way to rediscover personal greatness and live a life of purpose and fulfillment and everything you need to do so is right in front of you.
An honest guide to resiliency written by an expert in it, From Grief to Greatness presents strategies for finding optimism, self-worth, faith, and more. No matter what someone has faced or the depths they have fallen to, these foundations can be developed and translated into all areas of life. From Grief to Greatness is a life-changing commentary on how to take times of adversity and come out with gratitude, how to regain excitement about your own precious life, and how to grab life by the throat and make the absolute most of every single day.
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Walking Grandma Home
$16.99Add to cartThis picture book from a child psychologist and counselor uses a touching and relatable story about a young boy’s grief to help children 4-8 understand what it means to lose a loved one and how to process their own emotions of fear, grief, and joyful remembrance.
When Grandma tells Lee she will soon be “going home,” Lee is confused. Isn’t Grandma already home? But as Grandma’s health gets worse and her death approaches, Lee learns what it means to “walk Grandma home” to heaven, while also reflecting on his good memories and dealing with his grief alongside his extended family.
Walking Grandma Home:
*Presents a child’s perspective on losing a loved one that young readers can relate to
*Is ideal for kids who have recently experienced a loved one’s death or are learning about grief for the first time, as well as for children with aging grandparents and family and friends experiencing loss
*Equips parents and caregivers to process a child’s emotions in a healthy and loving way
*Has a page of questions and activities to help children process their own grief and allow caregivers to personalize the story to the child’s experience
*Features text from counselor and author Nancy Bo Flood and beautiful illustrations by Ellen Shi
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Daily Prayers For Grieving Hearts
$13.99Add to cartGrief has many phases, and some make it difficult for us to find the words or motivation to pray. In the moments when we need God the most but can’t seem to connect with Him, Daily Prayers for Grieving Hearts can give us language to bridge the gap. This book helps readers remember that God is close to the brokenhearted, deeply attentive to our pain, and capable of healing and restoring us.
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Hope In The 11th Hour
$17.99Add to cartWhen Sarah Berger’s eighteen-year-old son went to heaven in an inexplicable single-car accident, Sarah found herself plunged into soul-searing grief-the kind that can ruin marriages and destroy faith. But that is not her story.
With an unrelenting grip on the Lord’s hand, Sarah clung to the promise that God is close to the brokenhearted. Now, for the many others who grieve losing loved ones to suicide, accidents, and illnesses, Sarah points them to the God of all comfort.
Hope in the Eleventh Hour helps readers:
*Understand what it means to grieve with hope.
*Realize their loved one in Christ is truly part of the great cloud of witnesses.
*Trust God with the hardest questions.
*Receive God’s comfort through dreams, nature, and divine encounters.
*Find joy in the present as they wait for the eternal.This intimate yet practical book opens readers’ hearts and minds to embrace God’s promises in the midst of grief and brokenness.
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Art Of Our Healing
$34.99Add to cartAre you experiencing, or have you experienced, the loss of a spouse, child, or loved one?
Has divorce or suicide impacted your life?
Are you experiencing loneliness or feeling isolated?
The Art of Our Healing is a relatable, faith-based journey of loss, hope, and healing, accompanied by original paintings and artwork. If a picture is worth a thousand words, prepare to take a walk through the art of our healing.
This is an inspirational book that will bring you joy, comfort, encouragement, and lead you to the only one who can help you on your journey of loss and pain and guide you to the ultimate healing of your broken heart.
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God Is Always With You
$15.99Add to cartWatch God transform sorrow into hope.
When grief hits and those around you don’t know what to say, it’s easy to feel alone, to think no one understands, and to even question where God is.
Others have walked the journey of grief before. In God Is Always with You, you will read thirty-one real stories of people who have endured loss and trauma. Through the shared wisdom of survivors, Christian therapists, and pastors, you will:
*encounter hope, healing, and comfort in loss,
*discover new ways to walk through pain, and
*learn how God is present even in grief.Let these stories remind you that, whatever loss you’ve experienced, you can find renewed life in God’s enduring peace. You are never alone.
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Seasons Of Sorrow
$17.97Add to cartOn November 3, 2020, Tim and Aileen Challies received the shocking news that their son Nick had died. A 20-year-old student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, he had been participating in a school activity with his fiancee, sister, and friends, when he fell unconscious and collapsed to the ground. Neither students, nor a passing doctor, nor paramedics were able to revive him. His parents received the news at their home in Toronto and immediately departed for Louisville to be together as a family. While on the plane, Tim, an author and blogger, began to process his loss through writing.
Nick’s death resonated through the evangelical world. His memorial service in the United States and funeral in Canada were watched by thousands. Tim’s blog posts were read by hundreds of thousands as he gave voice to his sorrow and anguish, but also to his faith and hope. Seasons of Sorrow includes a selection of those early reflections, but also many pieces Tim has written since and not shared with the public. Separated into four seasons, from Fall to Summer, and written mostly in the present tense, Seasons of Sorrow shares real-time reflections from the first year of his grief.
Seasons of Sorrow begins in the Challies living room with the phone call every parent dreads–We did everything we could. It ends exactly one year later as Tim ponders the final first. In a year of many firsts–a first Thanksgiving with an empty chair, a first Christmas with an empty stocking, a first birthday with no gifts, the anniversary of Nick’s death is the final first and, thus, a fitting conclusion. Along the way, Tim shares the poignancy of his early grief, the doubts and fears that plagued him, the faith that sustained him, and the hope that has given him joy even through such sorrow.
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Learning To Be Me Without You
$17.99Add to cartLearning to Be Me Without You is a love story about a diagnosis, one last adventure, a crisis of faith, and a transformed life. With stunning authenticity, Paula Freeman chronicles her journey into widowhood, the club no one wants to join. Yet in the journey, she discovers how God recovers life from loss.
When doctors confirm that Paula’s husband of forty years has an uncurable lung disease, fear and grief overwhelm her, and she begins to journal. This memoir is a vulnerable and sometimes humorous account-in real time-of a terminal illness, a cross-country move, her husband’s untimely death, and an unscripted road to healing during a set-apart season by the sea. It’s a story of God’s faithfulness in the crucible of grief and what can happen when we say yes to his invitation to Follow me . . . I want to recover your life.
This book offers gentle guidance and insight toward personal growth through grief and can also be used as a support group, widows’ ministry, or church group resource.
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Ours : Biblical Comfort For Men Grieving Miscarriage
$17.99Add to cartThis 31-day devotional gives biblical comfort and practical support to men processing miscarriage. The loss of a baby in the womb can leave the father reeling, as well as the mother. He may feel confused, helpless, lonely, deeply sad, or just numb.
As readers draw alongside Jesus in the pages of Luke’s Gospel, they’ll find help to process their grief and to address questions they may be too afraid to ask. There’s also lots of practical help on how to care both for themselves and for their family in the aftermath of miscarriage.
Eric Schumacher writes with sympathy and compassion as someone who has experienced the grief of multiple pregnancy losses making this book a great way to reach out to men who are suffering in this way. Includes foreword by Paul David Tripp and contributions from Nate and Lore Wilbert, Jenn Hesse, and Brian Croft. There is also space for journaling.
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Prayer Map For The Grieving Heart
$7.99Add to cartThe Prayer Map Offers Comfort for Your Grieving Heart
This unique prayer journal is an engaging and creative tool to help comfort and heal your grieving heart as you experience the power of prayer. Each spread guides your troubled heart to write out thoughts, ideas, and lists. . .creating a specific “map” for you to follow as you talk to God. Each map includes a spot to record the date, so you can look back on your prayers and see how God has worked in your life. The Prayer Map for the Grieving Heart will not only encourage you to share your heartfelt sadness and loss with God. . .it will also help you build a healthy spiritual habit of continual prayer for life!
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Hole In The World
$27.00Add to cartWhen did we forget how to grieve well?
When Amanda Held Opelt suffered a season of loss-including three miscarriages and the unexpected death of her sister, New York Times bestselling writer Rachel Held Evans-she was confronted with sorrow she didn’t know to how face. Opelt struggled to process her grief and accept the reality of the pain in the world. She also wrestled with some unexpectedly difficult questions: What does it mean to truly grieve and to grieve well? Why is it so hard to move on? Why didn’t my faith prepare me for this kind of pain? And what am I supposed to do now?
Her search for answers led her to discover that generations past embraced rituals that served as vessels for pain and aided in the process of grieving and healing. Today, many of these traditions have been lost as religious practice declines, cultures amalgamate, death is sanitized, and pain is averted.
In this raw and authentic memoir of bereavement, Opelt explores the history of human grief practices and how previous generations have journeyed through periods of suffering. She explores grief rituals and customs from various cultures, including:
*the Irish tradition of keening, or wailing in grief, which teaches her that healing can only begin when we dive headfirst into our grief
*the Victorian tradition of post-mortem photographs and how we struggle to recall a loved one as they were
*the Jewish tradition of sitting shiva, which reminds her to rest in the strength of her community even when God feels absent
*the tradition of mourning clothing, which set the bereaved apart in society for a time, allowing them space to honor their grief
As Opelt explores each bereavement practice, it gives her a framework for processing her own pain. She shares how, in spite of her doubt and anger, God met her in the midst of sorrow and grieved along with her, and shows that when we carefully and honestly attend to our losses, we are able to expand our capacity for love, faith, and healing.
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Beyond The Darkness
$16.99Add to cartSorrow is a dark and painful road. You don’t need to walk it alone.
The Bible says that “God is near to the brokenhearted,” but what does that look like when you’re lost in the darkness of agonizing grief? How do you engage with your sorrow when the world tells you to shoulder through or move on?
Award-winning writer and podcaster Clarissa Moll knows this landscape of loss all too well. Her life changed forever in 2019 when her husband, Rob, died unexpectedly while hiking-leaving her with four children to raise alone. In her debut book, Beyond the Darkness, Clarissa offers her powerful personal narrative as well as honest, practical wisdom that will gently guide you toward flourishing amidst your own loss.
In the pages of Beyond the Darkness, you’ll learn how to:
*meet and engage with loss in your everyday life,
*uncover the lies the world has told you about your grief, and
*point your feet toward hope and find a way to navigate your new life with loss and God beside you.Whether you’ve lost someone dear to you or you’re supporting a loved one as they mourn, you can learn to walk with grief. And as you do, you might be surprised to discover the path is wide enough for another companion, the Good Shepherd of your soul. Grief may walk with us for the rest of our lives, but Jesus will too.
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Soul Care When Youre Grieving
$15.99Add to cartThere is no right or wrong way to face loss. But do you ever feel you could be coping better?
Grief is difficult. We all experience it-and we experience it differently. But what if you could break down some of the barriers created by grief? What if you could latch onto ways to engage again with the world around you?
It’s far too easy to be tied to common misconceptions about grief. By reframing those misconceptions, we can learn to give ourselves more grace as we process loss. Each chapter of Soul Care When You’re Grieving is designated by the opposite of one of the five experiences of grief and can help you start that course to reframing through:
*devotions
*prayers
*creative exercisesGod designed you uniquely–including how you process loss. Learn to embrace your own personal blueprint for dealing with grief.
Grief is difficult. We all experience it-and we experience it differently. There is no right or wrong way to face loss, yet many of us feel we’re doing it wrong.
In this life, we mourn-the loss of someone we love, the passing of a pet, the changes that come with age, even situations-these cause us to grieve. I wrote this book about the grief of all those situations and more. The exercises contained here aren’t geared to a specific situation, so they are appropriate for all kinds of loss.
Going through loss narrows my world. I used to believe that was my personal experience, but I’ve discovered it’s a common grief that happens to us all. I’m praying this book helps you break down the barriers created by grief and helps you engage with the world around you.
Most of all, I pray you learn to embrace your own process of grief and quit judging whether you’re handling things the way they should be handled. God designed each of us uniquely, and that blueprint includes the way we process loss.
Each chapter is designated by the opposite of one of the five experiences of grief. It’s far too easy to be tied to the common misconceptions about grief, so by reframing them, I’m hoping you’ll give yourself more grace as you process your loss.
These stages of grief are not steps or levels, they are just some common phases everyone goes through while they process loss. Don’t fall into the trap of believing they come in a certain order or that when you’ve experienced one of them, it won’t crop back up again.
Use this book to feed your soul when you’re grieving and know my prayer team and I have prayed over your personal journey. Rem
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Keep At It Riley
$22.95Add to cart“This is a story of how Catholic faith accompanied my family through the sickness and death of my elderly parents. What could mistakenly be seen as a downward spiral was actually upward. As my parents were called home to God those around them caught a glimpse of heaven. Ministering to them during this time was challenging, yet a blessing, not a burden… I discovered my source of strength was my Irish Catholic upbringing, the sacraments, and my God. Our family motto, ‘Keep at It, Riley!’ sums it up well. We don’t give up; we give it to God.”
This is the second book of the Magenta series, edited by Charles Camosy. The Magenta project brings together authors who will treat important topics from the standpoint of Christian conviction without being trapped in a polarized mindset.
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Among The Ashes
$21.50Add to cartHow can we hold fast to the hope of life eternal when we lose someone we love? In this book William Abraham reflects on the nature of certainty and the logic of hope in the context of an experience of devastating grief.
Abraham opens with a stark account of the effects of grief in his own life after the unexpected death of his oldest son. Drawing on the book of Job, Abraham then looks at the significance of grief in debates about the problem of evil. He probes what Christianity teaches about life after death and ultimately relates our experiences of grief to the death of Christ.
Profound and beautiful, Among the Ashes tackles the philosophical and theological questions surrounding loss even as it honors the experience of grief.
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Ill Say Goodbye
$17.99Add to cartBeach days with Uncle Mike always bring something unexpected, like a shiny shell that turns out to be a hermit crab. But Uncle Mike has cancer. Not every surprise is a good one anymore. Soon Uncle Mike starts spending more and more time at the hospital, and the grown-ups start saying “we don’t know” over and over. One day Mom says Uncle Mike is gone. Gone where? What place could be better than his house on the beach? How could he leave without saying goodbye?
This gentle, evocatively illustrated story addresses illness and loss from a child’s perspective. Though grief, confusion, and anger can be overwhelming, we can find ways to move forward with the memory of our loved ones.
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Chicken Soup For The Soul Grieving Loss And Healing
$14.95Add to cartThis collection of comforting and encouraging stories provides support in your time of need. Find inspiration in stories about coping with loss, regaining your strength, appreciating life, and finding new joy.
When you’re hurting, it helps to remember that you are not alone. Losing a loved one, whether a parent, a child, a spouse, a sibling, or a dear friend is a shared human experience. In these 101 true, personal stories, you’ll read how others handled their loss and found their way to recovery, acceptance, and eventually happiness. You’ll feel like you’re holding a loving support group – 101 members strong – in your hands.
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Courageously Expecting : 30 Days Of Encouragement For Pregnancy After Loss
$18.99Add to cartUsing Scripture and personal narrative, Courageously Expecting empathizes with and empowers women to face a pregnancy after loss with faith and courage, despite inevitable feelings of grief and fear that accompany life after losing a baby.
Pregnancy is widely regarded as the most joyful time in a woman’s life, but for the mother who has experienced pregnancy loss, a subsequent pregnancy can feel like she’s holding her breath and hoping for what she can’t control. In Courageously Expecting, Jenny Albers meets women in this difficult season as someone who has also experienced the worst and cautiously hoped for the best. Through the telling of her own story, Scripture, and heartfelt prayer, she encourages readers to cling to faith in the face of fear and guides them to:
*cultivate hope when doubt weighs heavy;*realize that the past does not dictate the present or the future and that God creates a way in the wilderness of grief and loss;
*flip the script on the what-if, worst-case-scenario narrative in their minds and learn to take their thoughts captive; and
*find the courage to humble themselves and ask for and accept help from others.
Regardless of where readers are on their pregnancy after loss journey, Courageously Expecting is a companion to help them through the days when fear overshadows hope.
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Hope For The Hurting
$14.99Add to cartLife is painful.
Everyone’s story comes with unique challenges, difficulties, bumps, and bruises that leave you lost and drowning in their wake. It could be a financial disaster, a health issue, a broken relationship, or the loss of a loved one.
Dr. Tony Evans, bestselling author and pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, understands life’s hardships firsthand. In a span of less than two years, he lost his brother, sister, brother-in-law, two nieces, father, and wife. At the same time, both of his daughters received cancer diagnoses. In the wake of all this pain, Dr. Evans had to put into practice, at the deepest levels, the truths he has preached about God for more than forty years.
God’s Word doesn’t promise us a life free from pain and trouble. It promises us something else-Someone else. Someone who will walk with us through all of life’s trials and troubles.
There is hope for the hurting: His name is Jesus.
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Seeking Answers Finding Peace
$12.99Add to cart“You are a sorry excuse for a wife. I don’t know why I put up with you.”
Natalie’s heart broke. What was happening to the kind, compassionate man she had married?
Several years into their marriage, Natalie’s husband, Michael, transformed into a different person. Plagued with depression, he struggled to regain his normally cheerful and effervescent personality. After the depression came terrifying fits of rage and frenzied behavior Michael couldn’t control, and Natalie was helpless to understand. Unfortunately, Michael’s bipolar disorder eventually led to his suicide.
Throughout the years, Natalie sought answers and instead found peace-peace that surpasses understanding.
In Seeking Answers-Finding Peace, Natalie details the tribulations of dealing with the mental illness of a loved one. Debunking stigma and presenting practical advice, she offers hope to readers whose loved ones have dealt with mental illness or suicide.
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Grace Disguised Revised And Expanded
$25.99Add to cartWith vulnerability and honesty, Jerry Sittser walks through his own grief and loss to show that new life is possible–one marked by spiritual depth, joy, compassion, and a deeper appreciation of simple and ordinary gifts. This 25th anniversary edition features a new introduction and two additional chapters, one which provides help for pastors and counselors.
Loss came suddenly for Jerry Sittser. In an instant, a tragic car accident claimed three generations of his family: his mother, his wife, and his young daughter. While most of us will not experience such a catastrophic loss in our lifetime, all of us will face some kind of loss in life. But we can, if we choose, know the grace that transforms us.
Whether your suffering has come in the form of chronic illness, disability, divorce, unemployment, crushing disappointment, or the loss of someone you love, Sittser will help you put your thoughts into words in a way that will guide you deeper into your own healing process.
This revised edition of A Grace Disguised plumbs the depths of our sorrows, asks questions many people are afraid to ask, and provides hope in its answers:
*Will the pain ever subside?
*Will my life ever be good again?
*Will the depression ever lift?
*Will I ever overcome the bitterness I feel?
*What is God’s plan in all of this?The circumstances are not important; what we do with those circumstances is. In coming to the end of ourselves, we can come to the beginning of a new life.
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Lemons On Friday
$19.99Add to cartAfter being married for less than a year, country music legend Alan Jackson’s daughter Mattie was faced with navigating a future that didn’t include her young husband and their lifelong plans.
Ben Selecman passed away twelve days after a traumatic brain injury-and three weeks before celebrating his first anniversary with his wife. Twenty-eight-year-old Mattie had to find a way to move forward and reconcile herself with a good God, even when He did not give her the healing miracle she prayed for.
In Lemons on Friday, readers walk with Mattie Jackson Selecman during the first years of grief following Ben’s tragic death as she grapples with her loss and leans on a steadfast God. Based on Selecman’s journal writings, Lemons on Friday will speak to all readers who must carry on without their loved ones and take a hard look at faith when their lives have not gone as planned.
Lemons on Friday grapples with questions like these:
*How did I get here?
*Will this always hurt?
*Who am I now?
*How do I move forward?“When fundamental parts of our lives are lost, when people and things we thought we’d never lose are suddenly gone, it’s natural to want answers,” writes Selecman. “Why did this happen? Who’s to blame? What could I have done differently? And for many of us in the aftermath of life-shattering change, we also want to know, where is God? Not just where was He when the tragedy happened, but where is He now in my darkest days of hurt, wondering, and longing for comfort? When I am on the floor, writhing in tears with no idea what the rest of my life will look like, where is God?”
Lemons on Friday offers insight and peace for anyone grieving, but especially for young people experiencing loss and facing a future that feels full of question marks.
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Surviving Suicide Loss
$14.99Add to cartNothing could hurt worse. But even in the darkness . . . there’s hope.
The pain of suicide loss is indescribable. It seems beyond survival. Yet with faith, perseverance, and the tools of brain science, there is a way through. It will take time. It will take struggle. But hope is real, for there are things you can do to make it to the other side.
If you are struggling with suicide loss or you need to come alongside someone who is, Rita Schulte wants to help you move forward. As a suicide loss survivor herself, she understands the pain you’re feeling because she has been there too. Rita, an experienced therapist and expert in traumatic loss, offers a science-based therapy model that also takes into account the role of human spirituality. Chapters in this book include:
*Making Sense of the Desire to Die
*The Mind-Body Connection
*Unfinished Business
*Making Peace with Ourselves
*Facing the Dark Side
*Children-Living Behind the Shadow
*The Time that RemainsWhen it comes to suicide loss, you’ll never have all the answers. But one thing is certain: there are real pathways to help you heal-body, mind, and spirit.
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When Jesus Speaks To A Grieving Heart Devotional Journal
$9.99Add to cartJesus is Speaking to Your Grieving Heart
This beautiful devotional journal-written for your grieving heart-will inspire and encourage you as you cope with a loss. Dozens of readings offer just the comfort you need to face the day, along with uplifting little reminders that Jesus has a very special message just for your grieving heart. You will learn that Jesus speaks every day-in every difficult situation-whether you have experienced the loss of a spouse, a parent, a child, a friend, or a beloved pet. Each devotional, rooted in scripture and written from Christ’s heavenly perspective, will leave you feeling perfectly loved and blessed.
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From Pain To Purpose
$19.99Add to cartRecover from grief and reclaim the joy of life.
You may have recently suffered the loss of a loved one, a job, a home, or a business. Or perhaps you’re rebuilding after a painful divorce. Major losses like these can sap the joy out of life, trapping you in pain.
Authors Duane and Cindy Mullett have experienced tragic loss and understand the meaning of suffering. Together with Dr. David Ferguson, they detail a tried-and-true journey from grief to recovery. With interactive prompts and exercises to help process loss and forge ahead,
From Pain 2 Purpose empowers readers to:
*receive comfort for past losses,
*find healing for broken hearts,
*build your spiritual strength,
*rediscover emotional wholeness, and
*enjoy greater peace of mind.Embark on your path to recovery and let the hope of God’s promises unlock a renewed sense of purpose for your life and future.
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Unexpecting : Real Talk On Pregnancy Loss
$16.99Add to cartWhen your baby dies, you find yourself in a life you never expected. And even though pregnancy and infant loss is common, it’s not common to you. Instead, you feel like a stranger in your own body, surrounded by well-meaning people who often don’t know how to support you.
What you need during this time is not a book offering easy answers. You need a safe place to help you navigate tough issues, such as:
– coping with a postpartum body without a baby in your arms
– facing social isolation and grief invalidation
– having faith when you feel let down by God
– dealing with the overwhelming process of making everyday decisions
– learning to move forward after loss, and
– creating a legacy for your childInUnexpecting, bereaved mom Rachel Lewis is the friend you never hoped to need, walking you through the unique grief of baby loss. When nothing about life after loss makes sense . . . this book will.
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Either Way Well Be All Right
$16.99Add to cartDoes God have a hope to offer us in times of pain? Can God meet and sustain us even if our circumstances don’t change?
One of the few guarantees in life is that we will suffer. Everything around us is broken by sin. Each of us has an expiration date. A few years ago, Eric and his wife, Elizabeth, were confronted with this unavoidable reality when she was faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis and he was caring for her and their three children.
Shattered by grief, they began to wrestle with what it means to follow Jesus when everything around them seemed to be giving way. What this pastor and his wife discovered were a set of truths about God from Scripture that provided the resources they needed to survive-truths too often neglected by the modern world. God meets us in our grief, but not always in ways we expect or even want.Coming from that jumbled place of agony and assurance, Either Way, We’ll Be All Right is a journey through the darkness in hopes of discovering the light on the other side.
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Through A Season Of Grief
$17.99Add to cartIf you’ve lost a spouse, child, family member, or friend, you’ve discovered that few people understand the deep hurt you feel.
Where do you turn for daily comfort and help? Where do you find the tools to move forward? Through a Season of Grief is the first 365-day devotional designed to support and uplift you in that first, most difficult year of bereavement.
These devotions offer biblical comfort and practical teaching that will enable you to take steps forward toward healing each and every day. You will better understand the grieving process and will receive needed encouragement along the way.
More than thirty respected Christian professionals-including Kay Arthur, Jack Hayford, and Luis Palau-share their insights on how to walk through the devastation of grief toward wholeness and hope. You will also hear from people like you who lost a loved one and found God’s healing presence in the midst of despair.
This unique devotional is based on GriefShare , a national grief recovery support group program that has helped more than 100,000 families.
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Experiencing The Fathers Embrace Through Loss And Grief
$16.99Add to cartRun to the Father when your world feels like it’s falling apart.
Loss impacts everyone. At some point, every human being will walk through the valley of the shadow of death. In the midst of their darkest time, the last thing a grieving person needs is an explanation of what they should feel or a trite response to their deepest questions.
More than anything, during times of loss, people need to experience the loving embrace of their Heavenly Father.
Bestselling author and internationally-recognized teacher on the Father Heart of God, Trisha Frost transparently shares her own journey following the death of her husband, Jack Frost. With tenderness and care, Trisha walks the reader through the valley of death’s shadow into the comforting embrace of Father God.
If you or someone you love has suffered loss, Experiencing the Father’s Embrace in Loss, Grief, and Mourning will be an indispensable resource and a deep comfort through the sorrow.
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Joy And Strength
$16.99Add to cartGod is the best source of comfort you will find. He knows you better than anyone else does, and he is full of understanding for every situation. Some days your heart may be filled with grief, some may hold a flicker of hope, and on others you might ache with desperate need. Lay your heart at the Father’s feet and wait for his compassionate response. You can trust him completely.
It is important in your process of grief to recognize your depth of loss and express it in whatever way you can in the moment. Let God be your strength as you cry out to him. He is listening to every word you say, and he longs to reach out and draw you in close.
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Surviving The Holidays While Grieving
$13.99Add to cartThe loss of a loved one can change our lives forever.
Healing from the pain of losing a loved one doesn’t happen overnight. Each day can be a battle to keep unpredictable emotions under control-especially around holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, which can bring losses into full focus. Traditions and expectations often add more stress to an already grieving heart. Even simple tasks, such as walking through a store during the holidays, can surface memories that turn on emotions like a light switch. Finding joy may seem impossible.
Janet Johnson knows. She lost a brother to murder, a son to a car accident, and a brother-in-law to suicide. She has experienced firsthand how the holidays have a peculiar way of activating emotions-and why it’s important to process those emotions, not ignore them.
In Surviving the Holidays While Grieving, Janet comes alongside readers who have lost a loved one or are journeying with someone dealing with grief. With tenderness and compassion, she offers ideas for managing emotions, hands-on activities for expressing feelings in tangible ways, and tips for communicating those feelings to others. Readers will be encouraged to remember meaningful traditions and create new memories about their loved ones with others.
Through the pages of this tenderly composed book written from a Christian perspective, readers will find hope for healing and a toolkit for taking steps forward with joy.
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Prayers And Promises For Grief And Loss
$14.99Add to cartMany people experience levels of grief and loss at different times in life. For some, the depth of loss causes difficulty in carrying out what we may consider to be normal activities.
You are not alone. When grief and loss threaten to overwhelm you, pick up this book. Prayers & Promises for Grief and Loss incorporates more than 70 themes to help you receive the assurance, peace, strength, and comfort found in the promises of God’s Word. Uplifting prayers and journaling space offer an opportunity for deeper reflection.God is the best source of comfort you will find. He knows your heart and he is full of compassion for you. By staying connected to him, and believing the promises of his Word, you can experience hope and peace in difficult times.
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365 Days Of Prayer For Grief And Loss
$16.99Add to cartWhether you have made prayer a habit for many years or this is your first prayer devotional, inspiration and comfort is waiting for you in the daily prayers written here.
Prayer is a conversation with God. You don’t need to use fancy words or recite long passages of Scripture. Just talk to God. Open your heart. Tell him about your depth of loss and express your grief in whatever way you need to in this moment.
God is the best source of comfort you will find. He knows your heart and he is full of compassion for you. Let his strength be yours as you cry out to him. He is listening to every word you say.
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Grief The Unwanted Journey
$14.99Add to cartGrief is no stranger in life. Sometimes it strikes unexpectedly, as in the death of a child or through an accident. At other times, though expected due to age or long-term illness, it still comes bringing with it a multitude of emotions. Janet’s reflections on events that brought grief into her life and the lives of others help the reader understand there are similar emotions we all face, yet no one grieves the same. Through these reflections, readers are encouraged to journey from hurt and pain to find God’s inner joy and peace, recognizing the ability to grieve is a gift given by God to help us heal.
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Weary World : Reflections For A Blue Christmas
$16.00Add to cartIn A Weary World, Escobar provides twenty-eight daily reflections paired with Scripture and prayer to tackle this difficult season. Weekly resources make this Advent devotional suitable for group study as well.
During the holidays, so many of us can suffer for all kinds of reasons. The magnitude of our weary world weighs on our hearts and minds. We wrestle with chronic pain, broken relationships, shattered dreams, fragile faith, and unexpected losses. Our grief and sorrow feel particularly acute when compared to the festivity and joy everyone else seems to be feeling. More and more churches are acknowledging this fact with “Blue Christmas” services (also called “Longest Night” services) and offering resources to give particular support and comfort to those struggling during the “most wonderful time of the year.”
Kathy Escobar has been leading Blue Christmas experiences at her church for nearly a decade and just experienced her bluest season of all following the sudden death of her son. In A Weary World, Escobar provides twenty-eight daily reflections paired with prayers and practices to honor our struggles during the holidays. Weekly resources make this Advent devotional suitable for group study as well.
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Beautiful And Terrible Things
$22.00Add to cartWith deep faith, knowledge of Scripture, and the wisdom that comes only from experience, Brady guides readers grieving losses and setbacks of all kinds in voicing their lament to God, reflecting on the nature of human existence, and persevering in hope. Brady finds that rather than an image of God managing every event and action in our lives, the biblical account describes the very real world in which we all live, a world full of hardship and calamity that often comes unbidden and unmerited. Yet, it also is a world into which God lovingly intrudes to bring comfort, peace, and grace.
Bible scholar Christian Brady, an expert on Old Testament lament, was as prepared as a person could be for the death of a child-which is to say, not nearly well enough. When his eight-year-old son died suddenly from a fast-moving blood infection, Brady heard the typical platitudes about accepting God’s will and knew that quiet acceptance was not the only godly way to grieve.
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Little Blue Bottle
$18.95Add to cart“You have collected all my tears in your bottle…” A child tells her story of losing a beloved neighbor and friend and wonders how God is near when we grieve.
In this beautiful book for children, a child tells her story of losing a beloved neighbor and friend. A young girl remembers playing with her neighbor’s cat, stories that her neighbor told her, and the special mementos her friend kept on a shelf above her kitchen sink, including a little blue bottle she kept to remind her of Psalm 56:8: “You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.” A Little Blue Bottle doesn’t provide pat answers or heavy-handed messages about life or death, but allows the grieving child to articulate her loss and her love for the deceased friend, while wondering how God is near when we suffer. A gentle and insightful resource for children who are grieving, and for those who care for them.
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Bible Promise Book For The Grieving Heart
$9.99Add to cartGod cares when you’re hurting.
See how He promises help for your times of grief.
At some point, everyone will experience grief. Now, The Bible Promise Book(TM) for the Grieving Heart organizes scores of powerful verses under 31 relevant topics to walk you through the toughest times of life.
You’ll be encouraged by God’s love, challenged to reach out to your heavenly Father, and reminded that He works all things for good for those who love Him (Romans 8:28). Each scripture will draw you more deeply into the embrace of the One who feels your pain most intimately-and can offer a way through.
Featuring text from the King James, New International, New Living, and English Standard Versions of the Bible, this beautiful book will guide you through the darkest moments, into the light of God’s perfect love.
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Road To Joy
$21.00Add to cartA WIPF And Stock Title
In The Road to Joy, Kevin McClone invites us to join him in a personal and professional journey exploring eight core psychospiritual pathways that lay the foundation for more joyful living. Inspired by the death of his beloved wife, Grace Chen-McClone, this book seeks to integrate core pathways of psychospiritual transformation. Each chapter explores one pathway in depth, utilizing psychological and spiritual sources, and ends with concrete practical action plans. McClone draws heavily from psychology research and spirituality embedded in various spiritual and mystical traditions including the wisdom rooted in the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
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Healing Journeys With The Shepherd
$14.99Add to cartHealing Journeys with the Shepherd guides readers through the road of painful and desperate times by helping them to experience complete healing through a deeper connection with Jesus, The Shepherd.
The journey of grief is raw and messy. In those painful and desperate times, travelers need a guide who understands the road and knows intimately the goodness of Jesus, The Shepherd. Healing Journeys with the Shepherd draws from Mary Kay McCauley Stone’s personal experience and journal entries to create a heart to heart connection. In sharing some of the real and often silent struggles of the valley, she serves as a caring guide with practical suggestions to help tender hearts process through the hard questions.
Together, readers move from the ache of loss to the joyful discovery of bright new life landscapes. Healing Journeys with the Shepherd includes a 40-day devotional and provides practical life coaching for daily care while exploring the restoration process as described in Psalm 23. The goal is to experience complete healing through a deeper relationship with Jesus as the Good Shepherd.
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Holding On To Love After Youve Lost A Baby
$15.99Add to cartA Powerful Resource for Grieving Couples
Almost everyone will agree, the loss of a child is the worst grief that humans can experience. And that crushing grief puts immense strain on the marriage, family relationships, and friendships that few can understand. That’s why this book was written. In it Candy McVicar, a grieving mom who leads a ministry for grieving parents, and Dr. Gary Chapman, relationship expert and author of The 5 Love Languages(R), team up to help couples who are facing the unimaginable.
They’ll teach you how to:
*cope with the complex feelings that come with the grief process
*understand your spouse’s unique grieving needs and support him/her
*use the five love languages in grief-appropriate waysThere is nothing that can make the pain of losing a child go away, but you can get help coping with it. This is a perfect resource for grieving parents or friends who’d like to help.
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Afterlife : Life Beyond Death For The Departed And New Life For The Grievin
$13.99Add to cartA Spiritlife Ministries Title
Eventually death comes calling on us all. When it does, how can the living navigate through the agonising grief that envelopes them at that time? Is there life beyond bereavement? And what of the dead – is there an afterlife for them? If so, what is it like? In this book, you will find the answers to these questions. And in glimpsing a better world ahead, fresh hope will arise that will sustain you through all of life’s trials.
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Lets Be Real
$12.99Add to cartLet’s Be Real exposes the depths of honest grief as a 22-year-old girl says goodbye to her father after holding his hand as her family sang him happy birthday.
At only 22, Emily Katherine Dalton never imagined her story would take such a turn, losing every sense of family and home she had ever known. The secure faith she had formed felt shattered. In Let’s Be Real, she shares her honest, gritty journey of fighting to believe all she had ever known until her world turned upside down. Fighting to name the depths of new emotions and questions she had never before held, wrestling to somehow let the people around her into the chaos, and relentlessly trying to run toward a God she had to learn to relate to all over again after facing the greatest trauma she had ever known. Let’s Be Real offers readers insight into processing emotional trauma and what authentic friendship really looks like as Emily Katherine relates and reframes stories that taught her the greatest lessons about the faith that follows trauma, grief, and loss–a faith that has to be real.
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Learning To Live Again In A New World
$26.99Add to cartLoss brings with it many layers of grief that need to be addressed. Healing from losses requires more than just talking about our pain; it involves working through the twists and turns of conflicting emotions and confronting questions that often have no satisfactory answers. It is reassembling the pieces of life that have been shattered by assumptions and expectations in order to create a new beginning. Within the process we begin to heal and recover. But as we close one chapter of life, we need tools and information to begin a new chapter and make that transition from what was to what is now. It requires challenging old assumptions and creating a new identity and road map for life going forward.
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Learning To Live Again In A New World
$10.99Add to cartLoss brings with it many layers of grief that need to be addressed. Healing from losses requires more than just talking about our pain; it involves working through the twists and turns of conflicting emotions and confronting questions that often have no satisfactory answers. It is reassembling the pieces of life that have been shattered by assumptions and expectations in order to create a new beginning. Within the process we begin to heal and recover. But as we close one chapter of life, we need tools and information to begin a new chapter and make that transition from what was to what is now. It requires challenging old assumptions and creating a new identity and road map for life going forward.
