Grief


By Medard Laz   Coping When Your Spouse Dies helps readers realize that, while you can’t bring back a spouse who died, you can face your grief in a series of stages which lead toward personal healing. The author advises those trying to cope with a loss not to bury their feelings, but rather to go through the pain of death and look toward the new life God has provided. Death. Most people don’t want to talk about it. But...

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By Dave Veerman & Bruce Barton Whether his passing was sudden or gradual, regardless of the health of the father-son relationship . . . when the man who gave you life dies, a part of you dies as well. It is an emotional rite of passage that affects who you are, how you relate to others, how you deal with your past, and how you face your future. You will find study questions at the end of each chapter in this book as authors Dave...

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By Therese A. Rando Mourning the death of a loved one is a process all of us will go through at one time or another. But wherever the death is sudden or anticipated, few of us are prepared for it or for the grief it  brings. There is no right or wrong way to grieve;  each person’s response to loss will be different.  Now, in this compassionate, comprehensive guide,  Therese A. Rando, Ph.D., bereavement specialist and  author...

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By Richard Gilbert Reverend Richard Gilbert has created a compassionate guide for those struggling with the loss of a parent. Bringing many years of experience in bereavement counseling, Gilbert sketches out some of the issues that arise in the wake of a parent’s death and offers practical suggestions for navigating these difficulties. From the disorientation that can come immediately after death to relating to the surviving...

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By David Powlison Someone you know and love has died. You feel the emptiness and sorrow of loss. That alone is extremely hard. But suicide adds many other painful reactions to the heartache that death brings. Common reactions are feelings of anger, guilt, betrayal, and many, many unanswerable questions. This is one of life’s broken, dark experiences in which you need help and encouragement to remember that the promises and...

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By David W. Wiersbe Hope for the brokenhearted. We all expect our parents to precede us in death. No one expects to have to make their child’s funeral arrangements. And the loss of a child brings with it a special and persistent manifestation of grief that can feel “like a stomachache that never ends.” Gone but Not Lost is a thoughtful gift for a family that has experienced the death of a child. Each of its brief...

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By Melissa M. Kelley   The experience of grief has been a source of intrigue and curiosity throughout history, and it continues to stimulate thought and theory in various fields of study. Unfortunately, these fields tend to function in isolation from each other. The result is a substantial disconnect between grief research, theory, and care — which has evolved greatly over the last two decades — and ministerial practice. Using a...

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By C. S. Lewis   Written after his wife’s tragic death as a way of surviving the “mad midnight moments,” A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis’s honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss.  This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period:  “Nothing will shake a man – or at any rate a man like me – out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely...

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By Lorene Hanley Duquin  “Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape.” (C.S. Lewis) Lorene Duquin, an experienced grief counselor was no stranger to understanding and explaining grief, and had helped many people work through it. But when she lost her mother she found herself living in an entirely new space. Grieving the Loss of a Loved One contains 52 powerful, one-page...

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