Download or read book Sorrow and Solace written by Philip Bachelor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorrow and Solace focuses on the importance of cemeteries in the lives of everyday mourners, and ways in which our bereaved give meaning to and draw value from their commemorative activities. The death of someone dear to us is among the most momentous life event that we experience. In many societies, visiting the grave or memorial is a common behavioural response to bereavement. Memorial sites provide vital connections to our deceased loved ones with whom we wish to maintain ongoing social bonds, and cemeteries are crucial places of deep healing and growth. Millions of visits are made to cemeteries every day, but the extent of this activity and its value to those who mourn - the topics of this volume - have long remained largely unrecognised. Large urban memorial parks are hives of activity for recently bereaved persons, and are among the most visited places in Western communities. Some cemeteries, hosting millions of annual visits, are more popular than many major tourist attractions. Cemetery visitation is a high-participatory, value-laden, expressive activity, and a most significant observable behaviour of the recently bereaved. This work will be invaluable to those seeking a scholarly understanding of bereavement, mourning, and commemoration. Written principally for professionals with a tertiary educational interest in related fields, such as grief educators, nurses, palliative carers, and social workers, it is also an important resource for the further education of other carers and service providers, including psychologists, physicians, counsellors, clergy, funeral directors, cemetery administrators, and monumental masons. The book is also a significant contribution to the field of social anthropology.
Download or read book Sorrow Solace written by Philip Bachelor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Sorrow and Solace' focuses on the importance of cemetaries in the lives of everyday mourners, & ways in which our bereaved give meaning to & draw value from their commemorative activities.
Download or read book Rabboni Mary Magdalen s teares of sorrow solace a sermon on John xx 16 preached at S Paul s Crosse after the rehearsall and newly reuised and enlarged written by Thomas WALKINGTON and published by . This book was released on 1620 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grieving Hope and Solace written by Albert N. Martin and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a tender blending of memoir and theology, a joining of heart and mind, a sober yet joyful consideration of Scripture in the face of one of life's deepest and most grievous trials. What exactly happens to those who die as Christians? What do they immediately experience? What is their existence like right now? What will happen to them when Christ returns to earth? These questions can be especially acute for grieving loved ones who remain. What comfort and assurance does Scripture offer you? What can you truly know and be confident of? These are the questions and concerns that faced Pastor Albert N. Martin following the death of his wife of nearly 50 years. He knew that, if he were to grieve in a way that glorified God, he needed to know the answers to those questions, as clearly as possible, directly from Scripture. This book is the product of his grief, his tears, his travails, his prayers, and his concentrated study of God's Word. A beloved pastor and widely respected preacher for half a century, Albert Martin handles Scripture with the greatest of skill, care, wisdom, and respect. In this book, you will learn what God tells us with regard to the burning questions that so often accompany the death of a loved one in Christ. There is comfort for the grief. There are answers to the questions. The Bible does offer hope, solace, healing, and confidence. Pastor Albert Martin has been there. Let him share with you the deep comfort, encouragement, and joy that he found, through Scripture, in the midst of his grieving.
Download or read book Braving Sorrow Together written by Ashleigh Slater and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Little did I know at the time that I’d one day look back and remember it as the beginning of what I call our ‘weeping years.’” — Ashleigh Slater We all have “weeping years,” seasons where the trials seem to come one after another. For Ashleigh and her husband, their weeping years included miscarriage, multiple job losses, feelings of betrayal, panic attacks, anti-depressants, cross-country moves, and even suicidal thoughts. Loss is a constant of life, but the intensity of those years changed Ashleigh, altering how she understood and responded to grief. This book tells her story. Braving Sorrow Together: The Transformative Power of Faith and Community When Life is Hard explores loss and trial in a conversational, storytelling manner. It gently encourages those experiencing grief of any kind to seek comfort in God and in the “me too” of community. Ashleigh gives an honest and vulnerable account of her personal stories of loss, as well as those of her friends, with reflections from literature and Scripture sprinkled throughout. She examines the nature of grief and loss in several universal arenas, such as relationships, health, career, and the home. Anyone who ever struggles (and that’s all of us) will be able to move through trial with more wisdom, releasing anxiety and receiving the help and comfort God so bountifully provides. Readers of Braving Sorrow Together will be encouraged that they are not alone, inspired to reach out to close friends, and reminded that God—the Author of all of our stories— can be trusted through the tears. Includes an appendix with further reflections on leaning into community in difficult seasons.
Download or read book Words of Comfort Or Solace in Sorrow written by James Smith and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Solace of Open Spaces written by Gretel Ehrlich and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard). Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life. Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves. Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (Newsday).
Download or read book Poems of Sorrow Solace and Spirituality written by Esther Adler and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-07 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beloved Jewish educator Esther Adler, brings a poet's eye to nearly a century of Jewish life, spanning her youth in Nazi Germany, her young adulthood in British Mandate Palestine, and her many decades in the United States. With a clear and unfailing voice, she commits herself to bear witness both to the destruction of European Jewry and to its rebirth in the 21st century. Her poems are a call to conscience, a call to inner peace, and a call to joy. Through the lens of Jewish learning, she invites readers to share in the sources that inspire her resilience. Reviews: "In Esther Adler's vivid poems, memories of loss, exile, and dislocation are transformed into injunctions to remember and transcend. Collected on the occasion of the poet's 97th birthday, the reader learns details of a long life well lived and discovers the consolations that come from work and love for Israel, family, Judaism, languages, and words. Full with allusions to Jewish texts and practices, the poems acknowledge every form of grief only to soar into affirmations of life, "sounds of solitary sorrow succumb to ... Sounds of serenity and succor." The reader, like every person whose life has been touched by Esther Adler's indomitable spirit or charmed by the spell of her storytelling, will feel grateful for her influence." Lori Lefkovitz, Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies, Northeastern University About the author: Born in Breslau, Germany, now Wrocław, Poland, Adler grew up in an orthodox family. She attended Jewish Day school and studied modern Hebrew after school at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. After witnessing Kristallnacht, she left her family for Palestine as part of Youth Aliyah in 1938, then rejoined her family in the United States in 1947. Her autobiographical novel, Best Friends: A Bond that Survived Hitler, is available in both English and German language editions. This is her second volume of poetry.
Download or read book The Soul s Comfort in Sorrow Selections from the Poetical Writings of G Washington Moon F R S L written by George Washington Moon and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book on Solace written by Bô Yin Râ and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the experience of grief, bereavement, and despair from the perspective of our timeless life. While not denying the reality of suffering and anguish in the sphere of mortal life, the book explains why grief and sorrow have no basis for existence in the dimension of the Spirit's light
Download or read book Solace in Sickness and Sorrow or a Collection of hymns for the afflicted With an introductory preface by the Rev B Bouchier written by afterwards BOUCHIER BOUCHER (Barton) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cure for Sorrow written by Jan Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jan Richardson unexpectedly lost her husband and creative partner, the singer/songwriter Garrison Doles, she did what she had long known how to do: she wrote blessings. These were no sugar-coated blessings. They minimized none of the pain and bewilderment that came in the wake of a wrenching death. With these blessings, Jan entered, instead, into the depths of the shock, anger, and sorrow. From those depths, she has brought forth words that, with heartbreaking honesty, offer surprising comfort and stunning grace. Those who know loss will find kinship among these pages. In these blessings that move through the anguish of rending into the unexpected shelters of solace and hope, there shimmers a light that helps us see we do not walk alone. From her own path of grief, Jan offers a luminous, unforgettable gift that invites us to know the tenacity of hope and to recognize the presence of love that, as she writes, is "sorrow's most lasting cure."
Download or read book Wild Comfort written by Kathleen Dean Moore and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2010-03-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in her time of pain. This book is the record of her experiences. It’s a stunning collection of carefully observed accounts of her life—tracking otters on the beach, cooking breakfast in the desert, canoeing in a snow squall, wading among migrating salmon in the dark—but it is also a profound meditation on the healing power of nature. To learn more about the author, visit her website at www.riverwalking.com.
Download or read book Solace in Sorrow written by Steve Mbugua Thoithi and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seasons of Solace written by Benjamin Allen and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like seeing one's reflection on a still pond, Seasons of Solace: Reflections on Grief is a reflection of great loss resting upon nature's gentle beauty. Our greatest desire is that you will see your reflection in our reflections. Words on a page can never truly describe the emptiness found when someone we love slips beyond our reach. Yet, it is our hope that these words, born out of loss, can be a bridge to solace in your seasons of sorrow. May our hearts meet within these pages and find healing on our common path. May in our shared loss we find our shared life. May in our aloneness we discover our tears fall on the same earth and flow into the same ocean. And through these reflections may our great loss bring us into an even greater love. When we look into the still pond, into our own reflection, we can see others on the water's edge and know our solitary sorrow is not reflection our aloneness, but of our shared love. Perhaps you find here the comfort of experiencing that you are not alone. Such great loss, such great love, lives within us all. We invite you to join us within these pages in a place of healing in our seasons of solace.
Download or read book Finding Solace in Sorrow written by Ruth A Anderson and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how the depths of grief can lead to the heights of personal growth and resilience? Finding solace in sorrow by Ruth A. Anderson is captivating exploration invites you on a transformative journey where loss becomes a catalyst for renewal, and grief becomes the fertile ground from which a resilient future blooms As you turn each page, you'll uncover the power of authenticity-the freedom to express and honor your feelings without reservation. You'll discover the art of weaving memories into meaningful rituals that celebrate the lives of those you've lost. And you'll be inspired to embrace change as a companion on your journey, propelling you toward a future illuminated by hope and purpose. Get this book and embark on a transformative odyssey where the darkness of grief gives rise to the brilliance of self-discovery. This book isn't just about healing; it's about harnessing the strength that comes from traversing the depths and emerging on the other side, ready to embrace life anew. With every page, you'll find yourself nodding in understanding, shedding tears of recognition, and ultimately walking away with a renewed sense of resilience, empowerment, and an unwavering belief in the capacity of the human heart to heal and thrive
Download or read book Words of Comfort Or Solace in Sorrow written by James Smith and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part 3. Matt. 11:28 (39 pgs.).
