Spiritual Grief

Scripture reveals a God who meets us where we are, not where we pretend to be. No More Faking Fine is your invitation to get honest with God through the life-giving language of lament.

No matter what life has been like, at some point or another we all have the same question: Why does God allow bad things to happen? Grief, loss, and trauma affect each of us, and there are times it feels like the pain will never end. Yet hope, healing, and inner peace are not only possible, they are promises that our good God has made—and will keep. In this compassionate book, licensed counselor and domestic violence survivor Kimberly Haar leads you through a transformative journey of healing.

Join New York Times best-selling author Shauna Niequist as she invites you to experience the precious gifts and wisdom that only come the hard way - through change, loss, and transition. In this collection of poignant essays, Shauna reflects on her own journey of making peace with change, the nuanced mix of excitement and heartbreak that comes with it, and the practices that offer us strength and hope along the way. A tribute to life at the edges, Bittersweet is a love letter to the bittersweet and sacred work that change does in us all.

From your heart’s deepest cry to life’s joyful praises, nothing is off limits to Jesus.Knowing Jesus on a deeper, more personal level means sharing all aspects of your life with Him…every day. In Dear Jesus, Sarah Young exemplifies what it means to do this - to dialogue with the Savior. She begins each of the 120 devotionals by sharing intimate struggles and longings that weigh on the heart - being preoccupied with problems; being dissatisfied with oneself, and other spiritual issues.

Psychic medium and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Light Between Us Laura Lynne Jackson brings the mystical into the everyday. She relates stories of people who have experienced uncanny revelations and instances of unexplained synchronicity, as well as others drawn from her own experience. Full of stories of hope, Signs teaches us how to recognise and interpret the life-changing messages from loved ones and spirit guides.

It's easy to trust God when things are going our way and the world makes sense. But when suffering strikes—especially seemingly senseless suffering—we are filled with doubt and stunned by events spiraling beyond our control. In the midst of suffering, we often question the very foundation of our faith—our belief in the God who says he loves us. Joni Eareckson Tada, a woman who has lived in a wheelchair for more than thirty years, and Steve Estes, a pastor and one of Joni's closest friends, explore the answers. When God Weeps is not so much a book about suffering as it is about God.

When the oldest of Kate Braestrup's four children was 10 years old, her husband, a Maine state trooper, was killed in a car accident. Stunned and grieving, she decided to pursue her husband's dream of becoming a Unitarian minister. She eventually began working with the Maine Game Warden Service, which conducts the state's search-and-rescue operations when people go missing in the wilderness.

When our circumstances unravel, how do we hold on to truth, to hope, to who we’re meant to be? After Carole Holiday experienced a series of heartbreaking losses, she realized something else had slipped away: her identity. Grief had stolen her sense of self, leaving her feeling unmoored and empty. But it was not the end of her story. Her debut book, I Don’t Know Who I Am Anymore,is for the wanderers, the waylaid, the wavering. The ones who feel weak and worthless. The ones who weep.

Review "This is a great little book on the place of Lament in the life of a believer, as well as how God uses the difficult times in our lives. Much more than a simple grin and bear it theology, it gets into the nitty gritty and shows that there will be times that we feel that we are almost completely pressed out, and that isn't all bad if we handle it well." - Rocky Woolery "Chapter 6 alone makes the book worth purchasing." - Alistair "I found this to be a very readable and helpful analysis of Psalm 88. Those who in their own life can relate to Heman's words should find help and comfort/...

Behind monastery walls, men of God spend their lives preparing for the passage of death. Best-selling French author Nicolas Diat set out to find what their deaths can reveal about the greatest mystery faced by everyone - the end of life. How to die? How to respond to our fear of death? To answer these and other questions, Diat travelled to eight European monasteries including Solesmes Abbey and the Grande Chartreuse. Through extraordinary interviews with monks, he learned that their death experiences are varied and unique, with elements of peace, pain, humility, sorrow, and joy.

Spiritual Drought: A Transitory Period of Time, Reclaiming your Abundant Life in Christ. In a world where spiritual hunger runs deep, Spiritual Drought emerges as a beacon of hope for those yearning for genuine connection with God. This thought-provoking exploration delves into the heart of Christianity, addressing the alarming decline in sound biblical teaching and the absence of prophetic voices that once guided the faithful. Author Santiago Lastra takes readers on a journey through the parched landscape of modern faith, where God’s house stands in ruins, and many feel lost in the ...

Unshakeable is a tiny book to pray you through the big stuff. Writing a book while waiting for a breakthrough was outside of my plans. However, the insights and treasures the Lord gave me in my shaky season were so loaded with wisdom and comfort that I knew I had to share them. Unshakeable was birthed in a period of weeping. It poured out of me with such ease, even though it hadn't been easy. As I hunkered into the shoulders of my King, I tethered myself to His strength. I knew that if I was entering a season of heartache, that only meant I was positioned for His nearness. If you picked ...

f you’re just looking at this book, it’s no accident—your soul guided you here, and it’s meant for you! You’ll discover all the answers you’ve been searching for about your loved one who has passed on. What happens after we die? Can we still connect with those we’ve lost? I share my own story of reaching my son beyond this life, blending years of deep research with my personal journey to reveal amazing truths about the afterlife. This book is filled with real testimonials, scientific evidence, and events that will clear any doubt you have that death is the end—because ...

Join David Faust as he helps answer questions such as: How should I deal with my fears about aging? What should I do when I retire? How can I enjoy a fruitful relationship with God as I grow older? How should I deal with grief when friends and family members pass away?

Jimmy Gauntt—personable, brilliant Jimmy—died at age twenty-four, struck by an automobile. The promising young man’s death shattered his father Casey’s heart. And yet, in the coming months, Casey and his family would experience something amazing. Through seeming coincidence and moments of magical synchronicity, Jimmy makes himself known to his family, sparking an amazing healing process that leads Casey—a conservative businessman—into the mystical world of mediums, shamans, coffee readers, and spirit guides. Suffering Is the Only Honest Work reveals the strength and love that ...

Living in a broken world gives us plenty of reasons to armor up, shut down, and numb out. But God wants more for us than just getting by. When we harden ourselves to the world, we not only close ourselves off from the good things God intends for us, but close off avenues God wants to work through in others' lives as well.

There is more to spiritual warfare than planning for battle. Being prepared is great, but what happens after the fight? What are we to do if the battle is lost and when we become lost? In Ephesians, it states when faced with a crisis, we’re not only to pray but to act and stand firm in our resolve. Paul tells us, it’s good to pray when in need, yet it’s also important that we don’t be stagnant and wait for someone to bail us out. Stop making excuses as to why you are stuck and focus on taking baby steps to move forward. Ask God for strength to endure trials, but in the meantime, ...

When great sorrow overwhelms us, as we stagger under the utter amazement of it, there comes a moment which seems a moment of peace. This is the moment when, as in a flash, we see that our sorrow is inevitable. It is not inevitable, we think, at that moment, but it is inevitable sometime. Sorrow is part of life. We cannot imagine any life which has accomplished a considerable number of years without finding this element of tragedy somewhere entering in. The first reaction to such a word of consolation is the exclamation, “This is nothing more than stoicism.” As we read the lives of such ...

HIGHLY COMMENDED in the Soul&Spirit Book Awards 2019 for Best Spiritual Real Life Story, this is a book you are going to want to read. Providing you with really simple ways to manage stressful situations. Divorce, bereavement, house move, job loss, marriage,pregnancy,new business These are all major life events that happen to most of us. Some of us may have loved ones around us, but they might not truly understand the stress it causes you. Whilst there are lots of practical solutions for these life events, finding something to help us through these emotionally are rarer. This is why I wrote...

Throughout history we have tried to make sense of the world that we inhabit and how we can navigate through the tension of all that is good and broken in this life. Yet most of our attempts to avoid loss simply lead to greater anxiety—an unresolved fear that we will eventually lose what we most love and need. Weaving a rich tapestry of Christian tradition and personal illustrations, Hyun offers Christianity as a true and compelling vision for life that faithfully points the way through loss to true beauty.