A Gentle Guide for Living with Grief and Thriving After Loss

Walking through grief after the loss of a loved one can feel like the most isolating and distressing experience you've ever endured. It's normal to long for a life beyond your sadness. Some days, resurrection feels a hopeful breath away. Other days, our grief reveals to us the gulf that stands between where we are and where we long to be.

In Beyond the Darkness, join bestselling author Clarissa Moll on a 40-day journey through grief—and discover the loving presence of Christ that never leaves your side. While this devotional cannot fix your deepest grief, these pages will reorient, strengthen, and sustain you as you traverse this new terrain of loss. Each day, Clarissa brings hard-won wisdom and tender care, incorporating:

• Powerful and honest reflections about pain, death, loss, and the resilient hope and healing within Scripture
• Written prayers for when you don’t have the words for your sorrow
• Compassionate and practical activities to guide you forward on your grieving journey.

Wherever your grief journey takes you, you will find God there. May the words in these devotions remind you of His loving presence and give you the comfort and courage to live fully again.

• A 40-day devotional to help people grieving loss.
• Includes powerful reflections about pain, death, loss, and the resilient hope and healing within Scripture; prayers; and practical activities to guide you forward on your grieving journey.
• 184 one-color pages.
• Also available in Afrikaans under the title Anderkant die duisternis dagstukke.

Die pad van rou ná die verlies van ’n geliefde kan die ontstellendste en eensaamste ervaring wees wat jy nog ooit beleef het. In sulke tye is dit normaal om te wens vir ’n lewe anderkant jou hartseer. Sommige dae voel die blye weersiens so naby. Maar ander dae onthul ons verdriet die groot afstand tussen waar ons nou is en waar ons wens om te wees.

Kom in Anderkant die duisternis saam met topverkoper-outeur Clarissa Moll op ’n 40 dae reis deur jou rousmart – en ontdek die liefdevolle teenwoordigheid van Christus wat jou nooit verlaat nie. Hoewel hierdie dagstukkie nie jou diepste smart kan genees nie, sal die inhoud jou help reoriënteer, jou versterk en jou gefokus hou terwyl jy die onbekende terrein van verlies betree. Elke dag bied Clarissa persoonlike wysheid en omgee deur:

• Kragtige en eerlike nadenke oor pyn, dood, verlies en die veerkragtige hoop en genesing wat in die Skrif opgesluit is.
• Gebede wat sy geskryf het om jou hartseer te verwoord.
• Praktiese aktiwiteite om jou op jou reis deur smart te lei.

Waar jou reis deur rousmart jou ook al neem, sal jy vind dat God daar vir jou wag. Mag hierdie oordenkings jou aan sy liefdevolle teenwoordigheid herinner en jou die troos en moed gee om weer voluit te leef.

Death will come to us all, but most of us live our lives as if death did not exist. Medicine has made dying more complicated and more removed from the experience of most people. Death is partitioned off to hospital rooms, separated from our daily lives. Most of us find ourselves at a loss when death approaches. We don't know how to die well. For centuries Christians have prepared for the "good death" with particular rituals and spiritual disciplines that direct the actions of both the living and the dying. In this well-researched and pastorally sensitive book, Rob Moll explores the Christian practice of dying well. He gives guidance for those who care for the dying as well as for those who grieve. This book is a gentle companion for all who face death, whether one's own or that of a loved one. Christians can have confidence that because death is not the end, preparing to die helps us truly live. A decade after writing this book, Rob died in a hiking accident at age forty-one. This edition includes a new afterword by his wife, Clarissa Moll, reflecting on Rob's life, death, and legacy.