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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