Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Christian Living - Death, Grief, Bereavement

How do we explain to our little ones that their beloved pets have gone home to be with the Lord? Do our loyal animal companions understand how deeply they are missed?

For children, the sudden loss of a precious pet can inspire difficult questions about life and death. How can we reassure mourning youngsters that our dearly departed pets have found everlasting peace? Gary Kurz, acclaimed author of Cold Noses at the Pearly Gates and Wagging Tails in Heaven, provides thoughtful guidance on soothing a child's...

Painful Past or Freedom Filled Future?

Do Your Emotions Rule Your Life?

Do Past Wounds Shape the Way You View God?

Do the Storms of Life Threaten Your Peace?

If so, then isn't it time to turn your tragedies into triumphs?

One of the most beautiful mysteries of the Christian faith is that of Christ and His Bride. Although the Bible tells this story, you were also designed to live this story, playing a starring role in this divine drama.

Through author Elle Stahlhut Roetzel's journey of healing from her painful past, you will receive strength to find...

Maybe it was the sting of remarks from a relative or friend. Maybe a miscarriage ended your hopes for a family. For all of your heartbreaks, maybe you wished there was someone to help you through. For Wilma Derksen, letting go of the 15 misconceptions about grief led her back to hope. In this book she tells how you can do the same.

Wilma's world collapsed when her teenage daughter, Candace, was taken hostage and murdered. Wilma now shares her choices to "let go" of heartbreak, which gave her the courage to navigate through the dark waters of sorrow. Like Wilma, maybe your heartbreak...

• HARD COVER, gloss finish
• 8.5" x 8.5" (216mm x 216 mm)
• 100 pages total
• A few Introduction pages (see info below)
• Each page is headed 'Guests' & 'Thoughts & Memories' with an open layout.

Introduction pages:

• A Celebration of the Life of ... with a few lines to enter your loved one's name and any other details.
• 2 blank pages to personalize or add photos
• A quote by Helen Keller: "That we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can...

This book explains what happens when a child dies. The child is immediately surrounded by Angels and resides in the first stage of Heaven called Transition. The child is only there briefly, but must be comforted and accustomed to this newness. The Love and Light are radiant, and the child is filled with awe and wonderment. Heaven Held is a dialogue between the author and her departed son who is a Light Being Guide. The author asks him questions and her son describes the place where he loves to work.

Suzanne Gene Courtney writes from the heart. For the past twenty years, she...

Painful past or Freedom-filled Future?

Do your emotions rule your life?

Do past wounds shape the way you view God?

Do the storms of life threaten your peace?

If so, then isn't it time you turned those tragedies into triumphs?

One of the most beautiful mysteries of the Christian faith is that of Christ and His Bride. Although the Bible tells this story, you were also designed to live this story playing the main role in this divine drama.

Through Elle Stahlhut Roetzel's journey of healing from her painful past you will receive...

How could I survive without the man that I loved and had been married to for 14 years. How could I live without my ten year old, first-born daughter?

My husband and daughter had been killed by a drunken driver and now my seven year old daughter and I were left with everything in our lives turned upside down. I wasn't even there to tell them good-bye or to pray for them. I never saw them again after they left our home that Monday morning on November 9, 1987.

The winds of change blew hard against my face. There was a change in every direction and I never liked change.

Join husband, father, and pastor Dave Hamata as he personally takes you on an engaging, often heart-wrenching journey of his decade-long battle with cancer.

Dave's wife and daughters also provide insight as they candidly discuss how his struggle has affected their lives.
Why do bad things happen to good people? Can a Christian expect God to heal them? Can you still have hope when things seem hopeless? Dave provides his intimate perspective on the answers to these and other questions.

Recent years have seen a dramatic change of attitude towards NDEs. Unfortunately, the ongoing debates about NDEs have detracted greatly from the very important transformational effects that NDEs have and how empowering they can be for the...

Although the Catholic funeral rite has not changed in the past few decades, society has. Parishes have new questions to face that their liturgical book does not consider: eulogies by family members, the final disposition of cremated remains, and the collapse of the traditional three-stage funeral liturgy. Light in the Darkness takes a fresh look at the pastoral challenges society is posing, while giving concrete suggestions for implementing the vision of the Catholic Church's Order of Christian Funerals. The appendix includes catechetical materials for families planning a...

After experiencing multiple tragedies to her children, Cari Zorno concluded that an important step in her healing was to bring healing to others--especially youth, ill-equipped to handle loss.

In TATTOOED by GRIEF, Zorno offers perspectives and tools for people who walk with youth experiencing grief. Zorno explains:

• How youth feel grief and loss like a tattoo etched on the heart
• Why grief is unique to each person
• What youth may not understand about grief's effects
• Skills for coping with challenging days like birthdays and...

When pain is real, why is God silent?

Frederick Buechner has grappled with the nature of pain, grief, and grace ever since his father committed suicide when Buechner was a young boy. He continued that search as a father when his daughter struggled with anorexia. In this essential collection of essays, including one never before published, Frederick Buechner finds that the God who might seem so silent is ever near. He writes about what it means to be a steward of our pain, and about this grace from God that seems arbitrary and yet draws us to his holiness and care. Finally he writes...

My soul began to sink into a primal dark abyss of fear inside of me. Waves of nausea swept over me as the front door closed with a resounding thud. The house had grown silent, but as I turned away from the door my thoughts began exploding like fireworks.

"How can it already be time for this? We haven't had her long enough This isn't really happening "

Each thought felt like tiny shreds of glass piercing through my skin. Truth swelled my heart with a bitter, stinging pain. My mind was crazy with reality as my body filled with overwhelming emotion.

My...

-I regret to inform you the test is negative.-

-I'm sorry, but the baby doesn't have a heartbeat.-

In an instant, one defining moment, the hope for a baby is ripped away.

While some couples conceive and carry a baby very easily, others, like Stacey and Kevin, travel on a journey that takes years to bring them the children they desire. The road to create their family included a spiritual awakening as well--one that was realized only years after they had children to call their own.

Whether you or someone you love has had difficulty getting pregnant, struggled with...