Download or read book From Grief to Grace written by Jeannie Ewing and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grief touches all of our lives, but it does not have to paralyze us with fear or inaction. God allows suffering because He knows how powerful it can be to our spiritual lives and to helping us fully embrace His love and mercy. In this insightful and practical book, you’ll learn how to live a life of redemptive suffering that will draw you through grief into a state of tenacity, meaning, holiness, and joy. Author Jeannie Ewing is no stranger to suffering. Her family has long struggled with bipolar disorder and depression, and her baby daughter was born with a rare genetic disorder that caused her bones to prematurely fuse together. Despite the many layers of sadness, loss, confusion, and anger, Jeannie responded to God’s calling and transformed her life into one with profound purpose and joy. Combining her training in psychology and counseling with real-life examples, Jeannie will show you that there is much life to be lived in the midst of loss, and that all things – even the most painful life experiences – are working together for a greater good. You’ll also learn: The all-too-often misunderstood difference between grief and depression.The spiritual benefits to uniting your crosses with Jesus’s Passion and Death.The counterintuitive notion that grief and joy can coexist.The spiritual danger of internalizing our pain and hiding it from othersHow great saints like St. John of the Cross and St. Therese of Liseux struggled to make sense out of suffering.The six spiritual principles that will assist you on the journey of navigating grief.How to know when you should seek professional help.Ways in which God is calling you to bring hope and joy to those dwelling in darkness.How to confidently confront the nothingness and emptiness you feel in your interior life.And Meditations on the Stations of the Cross, the Sorrowful Mysteries, and the Seven Sorrows of Mary that will help you reflect on how redemptive suffering can help you embrace God’s love and mercy.

Download or read book From Grief to Grace written by Tonya R Godwin-Baines and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is birthed out of the greatest trial of my life. I lost my daddy, Robert Godwin Sr. in front of the entire world via Facebook Live on Resurrection Sunday April 17, 2017. From this unimaginable pain, I lost my faith in God, distanced myself from church (became a backslider), and I was very angry. Grief is a lifelong journey, and while I'm yet navigating its path, I'm directed by God to write about my pathway back to grace.

Download or read book Grace Like Scarlett written by Adriel Booker and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though one in four pregnancies ends in loss, miscarriage is shrouded in such secrecy and stigma that the woman who experiences it often feels deeply isolated, unsure how to process her grief. Her body seems to have betrayed her. Her confidence in the goodness of God is rattled. Her loved ones don't know what to say. Her heart is broken. She may feel guilty, ashamed, angry, depressed, confused, or alone. With vulnerability and tenderness, Adriel Booker shares her own experience of three consecutive miscarriages, as well as the stories of others. She tackles complex questions about faith and suffering with sensitivity and clarity, inviting women to a place of grace, honesty, and hope in the redemptive purposes of God without offering religious clichés and pat answers. She also shares specific, practical resources, such as ways to help guide children through grief, suggestions for memorializing your baby, and advice on pregnancy after loss, as well as a special section for dads and loved ones.

Download or read book From Grief to Grace written by Denisha Karme' and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This assignment from God overwhelmed my heart in a way that made me excited and terrified all at the same time. This book is meant to encourage and inspire someone to dream big. Childhood disappointments can be devastatingly traumatic and mold our character as we grow. Do we allow it to conquer us or do we rise up as a warrior and fight for a better life? From grief to grace was written through experiencing rejection, insecurities, self-doubt and heartache. Happiness and confidence were the final destination! To get there, I had to let my open wounds heal and become scars. Defeat was not an option and now my purpose is to bring hope into the lives of anyone who feels unworthy. You are enough. Grace has covered you. Take a giant leap of faith with me and step into the life God desires you to live.

Download or read book Grace for Grief written by Michael Pink and published by Nelson Bibles. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, featuring a new cover, contains 365 Bible passages with heartfelt, prayer-like responses that express the anguish of the soul and cry of a grieving person during their first year of loss.

Download or read book Healing Children s Grief written by Grace Hyslop Christ and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author "relates the powerfully moving stories of eighty-eight families and their 157 children (ages 3 to 17) who participated in a parent-guidance intervention through the terminal illness and death of one of the parents from cancer."--Cover.

Download or read book From Grief to Grace written by Janet Wright and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Grief to Grace My Call to Prayer Janet Wright is a beloved daughter of the most high, a mother with a voice whom God has called and raised up as a prayer warrior, intercessor, motivational speaker and Kingdom builder. In her tell-all book, Janet takes her readers on her powerful journey to freedom, after experiencing both sexual and physical abuse at a tender age from those she trusted. She writes about rejection and the grief of losing her first son to gun culture and crime, and how she became accustomed to the trials, tribulations and effects of trauma in her life. However, despite great turbulence, armed with her faith in God and filled with His word, Janet was able to pray her way through from grief to grace. Through these pages, a gripping story of hope, restoration and the power of God is demonstrated. For Janet, her circumstances threw her into the hands of the Lord when she did not have the strength to stand on her own. As she sought God with all her heart, she was met and comforted with His loving-kindness, joy, peace, and unmerited favour, which is grace. She learnt to forgive herself and those around her and to trust God's will over her life. God has healed her, and as a firm believer, she has proven that prayer changes things; her life is a testimony of victory through the power of prayer. -These are my thoughts, my feelings... -This is my heart -This is the pain -This is the love -This is the heartbreak -This is the healing -This is my story

Download or read book Forbidden Grief written by Theresa Karminski Burke and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a review of the author's experience in counselling hundreds of women for abortion-related emotional problems. Dr Burke exposes the obstacles in the way of post-abortion healing, reviews the full range and depth of post-abortion adjustment problems, and illustrates how we can create a more understanding and healing society. -- book cover.

Download or read book Grief Growth Grace written by Neena Verma and published by Rupa Publication. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOSS, DEATH AND BEREAVEMENT ARE INEVITABLE TO HUMAN LIFE. EQUALLY TRUE IS THE HUMAN CAPACITY TO GROW STRENGTH IN THE GARDEN OF SORROW AND SEEK THE PATH OF DEEP GROWTH, TRANSFORMATION AND GRACE, IN THE MIDST OF GRIEF AND PAIN. Neena Verma, an expert companion, counsellor and educator for meaning-inspired 'Grief and Growth', and a bereaved mother herself, offers an in-depth and engaging book, that guides the way to transform grief journey into 'growth and grace' pilgrimage. Her path setting GROWTH Mandala framework shows an evocative and practical way to affirm grief, adapt to the emergent reality with resilience, restore well-being, transform and re-emerge with meaning and grace. This book is for you, if you believe that an affirmative, resilient and meaning-centric approach to life radiates light in the dark night of pain. And this book is for you, if you are keen to facilitate deep existential growth for yourself and others, whether or not in grief. Welcome aboard the pilgrimage of faith, hope, strength, wisdom, meaning, growth, love and grace.

Download or read book Suffering Wisely and Well written by Eric Ortlund and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Suffering Exists: God's Purpose for Pain in the Life of Job and throughout Scripture Why does God allow suffering? The pain of suffering can be overwhelmingly mysterious, but the Bible does provide answers. Throughout Scripture, God allows trials in order to accomplish specific purposes in the lives of his people. When faced with suffering they experience spiritual growth; repentance from sin; or, as in the Old Testament story of Job, the chance to demonstrate devotion to God in the face of inexplicable agony. In Suffering Wisely and Well, Eric Ortlund explores different types of trials throughout Scripture, revealing the spiritual purpose for each and reassuring readers with God's promise of restoration. The majority of the book focuses on Job, one of the most well-known yet misunderstood stories of suffering. Ortlund thoughtfully analyzes the text chapter by chapter, including the doubt of Job's friends, God's response to Job's questions, and the meaning behind important imagery including references to Leviathan and Behemoth. Suffering Wisely and Well shows readers how to deepen their relationship with God during painful experiences in their own lives and how to comfort others who are hurting. Explores Lament and Redemption in Scripture: Helps readers understand how to interpret suffering from a Christian perspective Applicable: Each chapter ends with a "What Have We Learned?" summary Biblical Advice on Grief and Support: Teaches Christians how to avoid blame or legalism when addressing the suffering of others

Download or read book Beautiful and Terrible Things written by Christian M. M. Brady and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. With 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.

Download or read book From Grief to Grace written by Tameka Douglas and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a collection of poems that I have assembled over the last few years of my life. They represent different parts of my life, my struggles, my happiness, my trials, and my accomplishments. During all of these times, I realized that I would not have been able to put these pages together if it was not for God, who has been with me from the beginning. All the glory belongs to the Lord. I am so excited to be able to release these words, and I pray that, if you are reading, these pages may become life and health and strengthen you.

Download or read book Catching Your Breath in Grief written by Thomas Attig and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catching Your Breath in Grief ...and grace will lead you home is a one-of-a-kind, heart-to-heart invitation to reflect on essential realities of life, deep human needs in soul and spirit, agonies of loss, and the hope and meaning possible in dark times. Written by Thomas Attig, a leading scholar in the field of death, dying, and bereavement, it is a remarkably accessible, even lyrical, treatment of profound truths from philosophy, depth psychology, and spirituality. Its combination of engaging text and uncannily matched, exquisite photographs is unique. As the author reflects on aspects of a universal story whose themes thread through the world's great spiritual and religious traditions, he invites readers to join in wondering about their own personal losses, loves, and lives. And he guides them in seeking hopeful paths to walk in the next chapters of their own life stories. About the Author: THOMAS ATTIG, PhD, is an applied philosopher and author of "How We Grieve: Relearning the World" (revised edition, 2011) and "The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Love" (2000), both published by Oxford University Press. A Past President of the Association for Death Education and Counseling and recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from The International Network on Personal Meaning, Tom Attig now lives in Victoria, British Columbia where he continues writing and teaching on-line. He invites you to visit his web site at www.griefsheart.com. About the Photographer: WILLIAM RATHJE, PhD (1945-2012), was a renowned archaeologist best known for The Garbage Project, using archaeological methods to mine landfills for insight into contemporary culture. His photos appeared in National Geographic, Natural History, and Shambala Sun. He photographed the natural world to provide vivid emotional connections with the assimilation of life's ups and downs. See "Remembering Bill" at www.griefsheart.com.

Download or read book Genius Grief and Grace written by Gaius Davies and published by Christian Focus. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Gaius Davies asks us to consider the lives of key figures in church history. After a brief biographical introduction, he shows us how they all had their particular trial, and how Grace operated in each one of them. He shows how anxiety, guilt, depression and doubt can be present in the finest of Christian lives, but also goes on to show how divine grace can transform human weakness. --

Download or read book Sugar in My Grits written by Amanda Callender and published by Jdelano Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grief stricken by the brutal murder of her cousin and the tragic death of her nephew Amanda spirals into a deep depression. Emotionally bankrupt and having lost faith in God she manages to make a decision to seek therapy. During therapy Amanda uncovers issues deeply rooted in generational curses, compounded grief and emotional trauma. Determined to get her life back on track she's forced to confront her own demons and find a way out of the dark depression. Sugar in My Grits is a first hand look inside Amanda's difficult journey and shares life's lessons she has learned along the way. A must read.

Download or read book Jesus Decides written by Kaye Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaye Bennett shares her story of loss, grief, reconciliation and grace. Loss came to Kaye early in life when her little brother died. She learned that grief is a lonely process. When you grieve, you grieve alone, because only God knows how you feel. When her niece was murdered by a serial killer, she experienced an anger that only family members of the victim know. She never imagined that she would be angry at God. Kaye wanted to share her story about the losses in her life and her family's survival of them. But God wasn't through with her. She also lost her nephew, the last child in her family. How do you know a loving God is still there for you when your faith has been tested not once, but three times? You ask Jesus.

Download or read book This Undeserved Life written by Natalie Brenner and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir about loss and grief, finding Jesus and grace amidst the most painful parts of our stories.