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After losing her fifty-nine-year-old husband to cancer, Dee Brestin wondered if her life was over as well. She ached for God's comfort but felt utterly alone. Then she discovered a secret that suffering souls through the centuries have learned: She began using psalms and classic hymns to speak the truth to her fretful soul. The truths carried by these timeless songs-many of which Brestin includes in this book-can calm the most fretful spirit. They...
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But now that he is Dead, Why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him but he will not return to me (2 Samuel 12:23)
Almost 200,000 couples in America each year suffer through the tragedy of miscarriage. And that statistic only tells us about first trimester miscarriages. The emotional pain of longer-term miscarriages, and the untold numbers of mothers and fathers who keep silent about their hurt, make this form of child loss
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"Life after a husband's death is full of grief, uncertainty, and loneliness. Who can possibly understand the heavy ache of this new life that must be lived alone? Only someone who has lived this experience too. In Prayers for a Widow's Journey, a collection of more than 100 reflective prayers, author Gayle Roper talks to the Lord about what it feels like to be caught in the unsought solitude of widowhood. Each prayer is accompanied by a verse...
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You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book. Psalm 56:8 NLT
Whatever you are going through as you read this, you need to hear these words: God sees you, He loves you, and your story is not over. Every tear you shed is precious to Him. Your suffering is not in vain.
This collection of heartfelt essays, eye-catching word art, inspiring Scripture verses, honest prayers, and...
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"Where is God when you need Him most? Doesn't He care?"
In times of heartache, the questions can seem unending. You've poured your heart out to God, but when the difficulties just don't stop, you wonder if He is listening.
You'll find encouragement and comfort from the life example of Hannah, a woman in the Bible who knew deep pain and seemingly unanswered prayer. Through her you'll discover you can know with certainty that...
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Have you ever cried out to God for help and it seemed like He wasn't listening? Lindsay Roberts understands how you feel. In this book, Lindsay Roberts shares her personal faith journey of trials and triumphs through numerous health challenges and devastating situations, including the death of her and Richard's firstborn son. And in new chapters, Lindsay tells how she applied the biblical principles God taught her throughout this journey as she recently...
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When you experience a loss that changes everything, grief is only the beginning. Mourning for the life you once knew is a long and important process--but where do you go from there? Rebecca Hayford Bauer's loss was the death of her husband in 2003, but we all face loss of one kind or another. In Life After Grief, she shares her personal story of loss, grief and healing, and invites you to walk with her into the hope and uncertainty of new life. Each...
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Lament helps us hear God's louder song.
When you're in the midst of suffering, you want answers for the unanswerable, resolutions to the unresolvable. You want to tie up pain in a pretty little package and hide it under the bed, taking it out only when you feel strong enough to face it. But grief won't be contained. Grief disobeys. Grief explodes. In one breath, you may be able to say that God's got this and all will be well. In the next, you...
When you're in the midst of suffering, you want answers for the unanswerable, resolutions to the unresolvable. You want to tie up pain in a pretty little package and hide it under the bed, taking it out only when you feel strong enough to face it. But grief won't be contained. Grief disobeys. Grief explodes. In one breath, you may be able to say that God's got this and all will be well. In the next, you...
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Life After Breath is a faithful friend and companion to a widow's grief that will enable her to look into grief and heal when others want to look away. It gives resolve without insisting on an answer and prepares a widow to champion her own Biblical cause in a way that no other book or resource on the market offers. There are countless millions of widows crippled without a voice; Life After Breath breathes life back into a grieving woman and prepares...
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Loss and trauma are such hard things. So often, believers are not equipped to walk through it with hope. This book is my story and I hope it will both encourage and equip believers with tools to walk through hard things with hope and toward healing. Through my own experience, may you find something tangible to fight the enemy of doubt and despair. God's Word is full of proven weapons of warfare that have withstood the test of time, if we only know...
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Las crisis de la vida amenazan nuestra estabilidad espiritual.
La pérdida de un ser querido -se espere o no su muerte- es siempre traumática. El trauma de adaptarse a la nueva realidad de viuda mientras se enfrenta a una multitud de preguntas y decisiones urgentes puede ser abrumador.
En este libro de 60 meditaciones, Nell Noonan comparte con franqueza sus experiencias en los 26 meses posteriores a la muerte de su marido.
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Miscarriage: deeply traumatic, tragically common, too often misunderstood.
When a woman becomes pregnant, miscarriage is usually, the furthest thing from her mind. Such was the case for Jessalyn Hutto when she became pregnant with her first baby. But, as is all too common in our post-fall world, the life she carried came to an abrupt end. Death had visited her womb, and the horrors of miscarriage had become a part of her life's story.
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14) Healing Hurts
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Sure to give hope and courage to everyone, no matter where one may be in life's unpredictable journey.
-Laura Magnin McDonald, MA, LPC, Co-founder of Christian Insight for Life
Pain, suffering, grief and tears. Have you had days when it feels like the pain is never going away? Days when you wonder whether you'll ever feel normal again? Times when tears stream down your face nonstop?
Drawing from her own experiences and seasons of grief,...
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Hope in the Hard Places is a practical, encouraging guidebook for the weary soul looking for hope in dark circumstances.
In this life, everyone must face trials. Cancer, chronic illness, loss of a loved one, divorce, depression, prodigal children, caring for aging parents, and other unknown terrains can cause people to feel hopeless and helpless. For those who feel like they don't know where to turn, Hope in the Hard Places equips readers to walk...
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Depression, fear, a sense of unworthiness, and unfulfilled dreams can make women retreat to their beds-figuratively and literally-and refuse to face life. Yet most of the time, hiding in bed makes matters worse. Who needs emotional bedsores? Authors Martha Bolton and Christin Ditchfield gently show women how to climb out from under their emotional bedcovers, face their fears and doubts, and step into the lives God has planned for them. Can I Just...
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In January 1984, I endured a sorrow deeper than my worst nightmares and fears. After experiencing two miscarriages, several surgeries, and an enormous amount of emotional disappointment trying to have children, I saw my newborn son's life slip away from me after only 36 hours on this earth. As the sorrow and loss began to surround me, I struggled to survive, as any mother would. It didn't matter that I was part of a well-known family and married to...
18) My Mended Heart
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Micah N. Dillon woke up one Monday morning to find her husband of 13-years unconscious in the shower. At 43-years-old, on no medication, Ben Dillon died of a chronic total obstruction heart attack. At 36, mother to two young children, Stone and Stella, Micah now had to continue life without her husband. In almost an instant, she lost three key aspects of her identity: she was no longer a wife, she had to step away from her career as a real estate...
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Breakthrough of Hope is the personal testimony of Susan Hubele. She shares the events leading up to and the many difficult years after her abortion in 1976. In her story, you will find how God saved her, set her free and healed those dark places of pain and turmoil. Susan openly shares the many mountains and valleys she experienced on her journey and personal insight that will bring hope and healing to anyone who has been affected by abortion. In...
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"I heard a choking, gasping sound and looked around, then realized it was coming from me. This was a kind of horrid scene from a television show, but this couldn't be real life. Our real life. My body went numb again and the doctor's voice grew farther and farther away. My baby was going to die. And nothing would be the same ever again." Losing a child isn't the end of the world. It could be, but it isn't. So what happens to a mother during and after...
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