Learn how to embrace the painful gift of grief and use it for
transformation and healing as you journey through the wilderness to
a promised life The Unwanted Gift of Grief is a passionate,
practical guide through the grieving process for those who have
suffered lossand those who suffer with them. Rather than talking
people out of their grief and pain as a way to make them feel
better, this unique book invites them into the grief and pain as a
way to healing, transformation and hope. Using real and in-depth
ministry and counseling conversations, it identifies the journey
through the wilderness of grief. This powerful book is equally
valuable as a gift from a minister to a grieving person, as a
professional guide for ministers and counselors, and as a training
tool for lay ministers and congregation members. Built on the
ministry concept of sojourning, The Unwanted Gift of Grief offers
guidelines to be used in helping people in their journey through
the adjustment period that follows a loss, a time that may include
the darkness of disbelief, frustration, anger, sadness, depression,
and healing light as they make their way through the wilderness of
grief. Topics examined in The Unwanted Gift of Grief include: grief
as gratitude and gift how family and culture can affect grieving
different pathways through grief everyone grieves differently
sudden loss, slow losing, rejection and suicide identifying the
agony and characteristics of depression grief factors that affect
marriage and sexuality saying Yes to death factors of faith,
science and miracles the labor and contractions of dying and death
the hope for healing and cure how to help: the Sojourner's Process
Guide the Grief Date: A Guide for Couples fifty ways to make it
through the wilderness and much more The Unwanted Gift of Grief is
an essential resource for anyone lost in the wilderness of loss and
grief, and for professionals, lay ministers, family, and friends
who care for them.
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