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"A Song Interrupted: Resuming Life After Loss," a guide crafted to navigate the profound and complex journey of losing a mother. This book is born from a place of deep empathy and understanding, aiming to serve as a companion through the silent void left by such an irreplaceable loss. The loss of a mother is unlike any other; it is an interruption of the most fundamental melody of our lives, a song that begins with our first breath and is expected...
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"Throughout the journey of my worst nightmare-my descent into a dark, sad valley-the Holy Spirit would remind me of truths that comforted my soul and sustained my life."
After the sudden death of their three-year-old son, Cameron Cole and his wife found themselves clinging to Christ through twelve key theological truths-truths that became their lifeline in the midst of unthinkable grief. Weaving together their own story of tragic loss and abiding...
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We want to say or do something that helps our grieving friend. But what?
When someone we know is grieving, we want to help. But sometimes we stay away or stay silent, afraid that we will do or say the wrong thing, that we will hurt instead of help.
In this straightforward and practical book, Nancy Guthrie provides us with the insight we need to confidently interact with grieving people. Drawing upon the input of hundreds of grieving people, as well...
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Writing from a biblical perspective, Carol Cornish helps readers to discover how God is working in the midst of the deep distress of losing a spouse. She provides the reader with direction in finding true and lasting comfort in Christ. Cornish, who lost her husband of 38 years to lung cancer, encourages widows to use their widowhood for God's glory. Ministry to widows needs to be a priority for Christian communities, and Cornish equips churches, families,...
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"It is utterly crucial that in our darkness we affirm the wise, strong hand of God to hold us, even when we have no strength to hold him."
John Piper
Even the most faithful, focused Christians can encounter periods of depression and spiritual darkness when joy seems to stay just out of reach. It can happen because of sin, satanic assault, distressing circumstances, or hereditary and other physical causes. In When the Darkness Will Not Lift, John Piper...
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Their love story is not one of fairy tales. It is one of faithfulness from the beginning through to its tragic ending.
Richard and Margaret Baxter had been married only nineteen years before she died at age forty-five. A prominent pastor and prolific author, Baxter sought consolation and relief the only true way he knew- in Scripture with his discipline of writing. Within days he produced a lover's tribute to his mate and a pastor's celebration of...
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With searing honesty Henri J. M. Nouwen describes the events leading up to his near fatal accident and recalls the transformative experience at the portal of death. Beyond the Mirror helps us contact the powerful reality of unconditional love that Nouwen experienced as he touched eternity. His insight inspires us to live our lives freely with confidence and trust that we belong to God.
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It is not polite conversation to bring up death at weddings and dinner parties. So how do you authentically navigate soul-crushing, bone-crumbling, heart-wrenching, asphyxiating grief? You cannot alchemize what you are unwilling to face. So treat this poetry collection like a melancholic music playlist when you are in a place to feel all the feelings that come with someone you love dying. It's written through the lens of losing a child, but with...
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As a child, born into an abusive/dysfunctional family environment, Lin Tillman became The Invisible Girl who received GOD's inspiration. However, from her father's verbal and physical abuse, she still had poor self-esteem into her mid-thirties. Lin thought she had escaped her painful beginnings, by making academic strides, but her Emotional Foundation (Inner-Child Self) lacked true parental LOVE. Unfortunately this plagued her subconscious with no...
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Los abuelos son la casa del pueblo, las vacaciones de verano, las propinas a escondidas.
Los abuelos son el tiempo que nos falta, y los recuerdos que aparecen en los cajones.
Hay personas que marcan tu vida y te hacen sentir de una forma especial y única. Esa era mi abuela.
Estas páginas encierran miles de momentos que viví a su lado, miles de conversaciones que ahora son recuerdos, y que un día necesité escribir para que nunca se borrasen de...
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Near death experiences are not that new, but never has a doctor working in Lourdes, and enlightened by deep respect for science and a faithful understanding of the 2,000 year-old Catholic approach to life developed such coherent, hopeful explanations. The task of the Lourdes medical office is to document and evaluate miracles and other supernatural experiences scientifically. Dr. Theillier has worked at that office for many years, and has witnessed...
14) Mi Maldito Yo
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Hay escenarios de la vida de los que jamas hablamos. Los lados oscuros cobran vida gracias a las brechas que les propiciamos. Entra al mundo de un hombre que cometera todo tipo de barbaridades extremas y que, a su vez, intentara huir de si mismo.
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When People Grieve offers guidance for some of the hardest moments of our lives. Caring for those facing the death of a loved one can be a challenging labor of love. This helpful book offers guidance that every counselor or friend of the bereaved should have. An internationally renowned expert on grief counseling, D'Arcy draws on her own experience of the loss of her husband and daughter. She distills the wisdom that she gained through the process...
17) Wounded Poems
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The 2nd edition of Joel's infamous book depicting insanity
"Watch me be born, watch me bloom and then die, watch me resurrect." - Elliotté P. Joel on Wounded Poems "Deep poems and conceptual metaphors!" - Alisa Velaj
"Very interesting, refreshing, paradoxically natural!" - Ida Sieciechowicz
The debut poetry collection of Slovak-American author Elliotté P. Joel offers a time-lapsing observation of young poet's works captured from the age of 15 to...
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Being a mission-driven leader is hard. Being a mission-driven leader who knows how to navigate the emotions of loss and grief connected to leadership is harder still. It takes a vulnerable leader to lead well--one who has faced into their own losses and can let those losses equip their character for God's greater plans. Not all leaders are willing. Not all leaders are able. Yet, according to David Woolverton, leaders' vulnerability to the emotional...
19) Silencer: Poems
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"Tough talk for tough times. Silencer is both lyrical and merciless–Wicker's mind hums in overdrive, but with the calm and clarity of a marksman."
-Tim Seibles, author of One Turn Around the Sun and finalist for the National Book Award
A suburban park, church, a good job, a cocktail party for the literati: to many, these sound like safe places, but for a young black man these insular spaces don't keep out the news-and the actual threat-of...
20) Song for Sarah
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More a diary than a manual on handling grief, D'Arcy's collection of letters written before and after the loss of her daughter reflects upon her search for strength and hope through years of anguish. With a combination of profound reflection and sincere stories, these letters express how the deepest sorrow can be transformed into a unique sense of comfort and peace. Filled with practical yet literary writing, this collection reveals the discovery...
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