You are not alone. Larry Yeagley takes you beyond the pat answers and clich s so often offered to the lonely and provides real ways to build a meaningful life and satisfying relationships. You will learn how to use your loneliness as a tool to create positive new experiences and exciting personal growth. "How to Get Beyond Loneliness" will help you: Understand the Causes of Loneliness; Find Solutions and Put Them Into Action; Break Alienation with God, Self, and Others; Learn to Enjoy Creative Solitude; Bridge Expectations and Reality; Lessen Loneliness in Adolescents and the Elderly; Combat Loneliness in Marriage and Divorce; Follow Jesus' Example for Dealing with Loneliness.

Larry Yeagley lays bare the soul of a pastor as he shares the joy and pain of "the most exciting and rewarding work in the whole world." He writes of pulpit pounders, dog funerals, fund-raising, and frigid baptisms. He tells how he graduated from black suits to shirtsleeves and explains the advantages of being mistaken for a psychiatric patient. Along the way you will meet the man with a 16-gauge shotgun who asks for a "dunkin'," a despairing woman named Sunshine, a tatooed ex-convict who learned to care tenderly for his abusive father, and scores of other real-life people with real-life needs. In the end you'll understand why three of Pastor Yeagley's children chose to follow in his footsteps. So get ready for stories that will ignite the fire for ministry in your heart.

A loss-whether it be of a loved one, a career, or anything else of importance-shapes the rest of a person's life. It leaves a void that can never really be filled. But there are healthy ways to deal with that loss-ways that permit life to go on and even be strengthened. Yeagley teaches us to say goodbye to those things we have lost. Dealing with such issues as divorce, loss of home, and the emotional pain of problems that simply will not go away, he shows how we can successfully cope with primary losses and secondary losses, or the loss of all those things in our life entwined with the primary loss. When a loved one dies or leaves, for example, we also lose all those things that we did with the individual, and we may spend the rest of our lives discovering and coping with the secondary losses. We may feel unending guilt or regret over things we wish we had or hadn't done. Yeagley also discusses the constant grief endured by caretakers such as nurses, physicians, and the families of sick and dying persons, and offers practical ways to deal with it.

Do you long to "wipe the slate clean" and have a fresh start in life? Have you made mistakes you wish you could forget? Are you afraid God can't forgive you for the errors you've made in your life? In his forty-one years of ministry, Larry Yeagley met many people who felt that God could not forgive them. "I discovered that a purely psychological approach to forgiveness didn't work. Introducing people to the forgiving Father in heaven did." Forgiveness is the unconditional grace of God that He offers to the repentant heart, and yet so many have a hard time accepting that gift. But for those who do, it transforms them God's Gift of Forgiveness seeks to renew your confidence in God's longing to forgive and restore you into His image; the book seeks to teach you how to accept that gift and freely give it to others.

Larry Yeagley lays bare the soul of a pastor as he shares the joy and pain of "the most exciting and rewarding work in the whole world." He writes of pulpit pounders, dog funerals, fund-raising, and frigid baptisms. He tells how he graduated from black suits to shirtsleeves and explains the advantages of being mistaken for a psychiatric patient. Along the way you will meet the man with a 16-gauge shotgun who asks for a "dunkin'," a despairing woman named Sunshine, a tatooed ex-convict who learned to care tenderly for his abusive father, and scores of other real-life people with real-life needs. In the end you'll understand why three of Pastor Yeagley's children chose to follow in his footsteps. So get ready for stories that will ignite the fire for ministry in your heart.

You are not alone. Larry Yeagley takes you beyond the pat answers and clich s so often offered to the lonely and provides real ways to build a meaningful life and satisfying relationships. You will learn how to use your loneliness as a tool to create positive new experiences and exciting personal growth. "How to Get Beyond Loneliness" will help you: Understand the Causes of Loneliness; Find Solutions and Put Them Into Action; Break Alienation with God, Self, and Others; Learn to Enjoy Creative Solitude; Bridge Expectations and Reality; Lessen Loneliness in Adolescents and the Elderly; Combat Loneliness in Marriage and Divorce; Follow Jesus' Example for Dealing with Loneliness.

A loss whether it be of a loved one, a career, or anything else of importance shapes the rest of a person s life. It leaves a void that can never really be filled. But there are healthy ways to deal with that loss ways that permit life to go on and even be strengthened. Yeagley teaches us to say goodbye to those things we have lost. Dealing with such issues as divorce, loss of home, and the emotional pain of problems that simply will not go away, he shows how we can successfully cope with primary losses and secondary losses, or the loss of all those things in our life entwined with the primary loss. When a loved one dies or leaves, for example, we also lose all those things that we did with the individual, and we may spend the rest of our lives discovering and coping with the secondary losses. We may feel unending guilt or regret over things we wish we had or hadn t done. Yeagley also discusses the constant grief endured by caretakers such as nurses, physicians, and the families of sick and dying persons, and offers practical ways to deal with it.