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The death of a child immerses parents into a life-long challenge of living with one of life's most heartbreaking losses. Pilgrimage through Loss tells the story of one family's journey, along with interviews from thirty other mothers and fathers who add their voices to the silences that often surround suffering in our 'mourning-avoidant' culture. Hunt illuminates the varied pathways parents eventually discover that open their lives to strength and...
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By exploring the ethics of resisting and accepting death from a Christian perspective, Nancy Duff encourages Christians to talk about death in the context of Christian faith. Making Faithful Decisions at the End of Life helps readers use biblical and theological perspectives regarding death to inform end-of-life decisions, consider where they stand on withdrawing life support and supporting death with dignity laws, and take steps in planning for their...
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From one of our most gifted writers and thinkers about death and the meaning of living comes a collection of writings about what comes next. Thomas Lynch, funeral director, poet, and author of the National Book Award finalist The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade, has an uncanny knack for writing about death in ways that are never morbid, always thoughtful, often humorous, and quite moving. From his account of riding in the hearse at...
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The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director-what Time magazine called a "must read"-reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air.
We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as...
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As news reports of the horrific December 2004 tsunami in Asia reached the rest of the world, commentators were quick to seize upon the disaster as proof of either God's power or God's nonexistence, asking over and over, How could a good and loving God - if such exists - allow such suffering?
In The Doors of the Sea David Bentley Hart speaks at once to those skeptical of Christian faith and to those who use their Christian faith to rationalize senseless...
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In the midst of life's darkest struggles, "Prayers Against Suicide Spirit" shines a beacon of hope and healing. This powerful prayerbook combines spiritual warfare and healing prayers to help individuals overcome the malevolent influence of the suicide spirit.Delving into Christian living, this book equips readers with effective prayers and strategies to combat spiritual attacks and oppressive forces that often lead to suicidal thoughts. It offers...
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In Glimpsing Resurrection, Deanna A. Thompson combines recent trauma research with compelling first-person narrative to provide insight into the traumatic dimensions of living with a serious illness. Her aim is to help those who are ill and those who care for and minister to them deepen their understanding of how best to offer support.
"The tendency for Christians to move almost immediately from death to proclamations of new life risks alienating...
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"An ideal guidebook to facing the inevitable." Foreword Reviews
After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death, from Egypt's Valley...
10) ¿Por qué a mí?
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Muchas de las personas que hemos tenido que enfrentar una pérdida de salud, nos hacemos esta pregunta: ¿Por qué a mí? En diversas ocasiones la respuesta más exacta puede ser la más triste y lastimera, y es que simplemente no hay una contestación a lo ocurrido, por lo cual uno debe de emprender un laborioso recorrido que le permita llegar hasta la aceptación.¿Por qué a mí? es un libro deja ver que, aunque no exista una respuesta, sí hay...
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For those who suffer with Past Trauma Memories that cause PTSD and other disorders; this book will allow anyone to recover completely from the Trauma Memory firstly in a one hour session, and then a 12 step program that allows each person to cast out their demons and their broken coping skill on a daily basis. This book is avaialble both as a Kindle and E.book format and a Print to Order format.The ony person who can heal you is you, yourself,...
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How can we hold fast to the hope of life eternal when we lose someone we love? In this book William Abraham reflects on the nature of certainty and the logic of hope in the context of an experience of devastating grief.
Abraham opens with a stark account of the effects of grief in his own life after the unexpected death of his oldest son. Drawing on the book of Job, Abraham then looks at the significance of grief in debates about the problem of evil....
13) Grieving The Loss Of Your Baby: Coping With The Devastation Shock And Heartbreak Of Losing A Chil
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Grieving The Loss Of Your BabyCoping With Devastation Shock And Heartbreak Of Losing A Child Through Miscarriage, Still Birth When the joy of your child's birth shockingly escalates into the grief of miscarriage or stillbirth, perhaps early infant death, there are not enough words that can soothe the pain and loss.You feel sad, shocked, and devastated?But there is still hope for the future and with God's comfort.Grieving the loss of your baby is never...
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Two of the most authoritative voices on the funeral industry come together here in one volume to discuss the current state of the funeral. Through their different lensesâ€"one as a preacher and one as a funeral directorâ€"Thomas G. Long and Thomas Lynch alternately discuss several challenges facing "the good funeral," including the commercial aspects that have led many to be suspicious of funeral directors, the sometimes tense relationship between...
15) After Suicide
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This constructive guide offers much-needed information and clinically-tested advice for those struggling to cope in the aftermath of a suicide. Written in clear language, this book presents the facts and demonstrates how to deal with feelings of guilt, anger, bewilderment, and shame. Also included is an anniversary memorial service that enables family members to recommit themselves to life.
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Grief is a natural response to loss. It might be the loss of a loved one, relationship, pregnancy, pet, job, or way of life. Other experiences of loss may be due to children leaving home, infertility, and separation from friends and family. The more significant the loss, the more intense the grief is likely to be.Grief is expressed in many ways. It can affect every part of your life; your emotions, thoughts and behavior, beliefs, physical health,...
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Tsunamis, earthquakes, famines, diseases, wars – these and other devastating forces lead Christians to ask painful questions. Is God all-powerful? Is God good? How can God allow so much innocent human suffering?
These questions, taken together, have been called the "theodicy problem," and in this book Thomas Long explores what preachers can and should say in response. Long reviews the origins and history of the theodicy problem and engages the...
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Grieving Futures: Surviving the Deaths of My Parents (Third Edition) is a book that explains a lot about how I got where I was in 2010, when I was forty years old, and yet had not gotten very far in life.The depressing backstory is that I was 24 when my mother died, and 26 when my father passed away. Because of that catastrophe, I lost the family home and any stability I ever counted on. It was, in the parlance, a clusterf*k. In the aftermath I made...
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Grief as a lifelong human experience is the scope of this absorbing book. Kenneth Mitchell and Herbert Anderson explore the multiple dimensions of the problem, including the origins and dynamics of grief, loss throughout life, caring for those who grieve, and the theology of grieving. This examination is enriched by vivid illustrations and case histories of individuals whose experiences the authors have shared.
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