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The Good Grief Devotional : 52 Weeks toward Hope
The Good Grief Devotional offers wise, honest companionship to those who struggle with the death of a loved one, a divorce, the loss of a job, or another major life transition. Pastor Brent D. Christianson's fifty-two devotions follow the ten stages of grief outlined in Granger Westberg's...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis, Minnesota :
Fortress Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; When Hope Is Hard; Stage One: We Are in a Stateof Shock; To Stand at a Distance; When You Don't Feel "Wonderfully Made": Shock and Yourself; If You Want to Talk: Shock and Others; In Bodies So Breakable: Shock and Creation; Draw Near, O Love: Shock and God; Stage One: We Express Emotion; Sighs Too Deep for Words; Sometimes We Need Yells: Emotions and Yourself; Wounded Healers All: Emotions and Others; Dialogues with the World around Us: Emotions and Creation; Being Emotionally Honest with God: Emotions and God
- Stage Three: We Feel Depressed and LonelyA Necessary Slowing Down; Sometimes, a Stranger: Depression and Yourself; An Invisible Blanket: Depression and Others; When the Full Moon Is Hidden: Depression and Creation; Take My Hand, Precious Lord: Depression and God; Stage Four: We May Experience Physical Symptoms of Distress; I Am Weary with My Crying; I Just Don't Feel Like Myself: Your Body and Yourself; He Looks Up and Says "Thanks": Your Body and Others; To Rest in the Grace of the World: Your Body and Creation; Touched by God's Own Presence: Your Body and God
- Stage Five: We May Become PanickyAm I Losing My Mind?; When We Feel Powerless: Panic and Yourself; The Presence of One Who Shares: Panic and Others; The Promise of the Rainbow: Panic and Creation; A Healing Voice: Panic and God; Stage Six: We Feel a Sense of Guilt about the Loss; Create in Me a Clean Heart; We Can't Avoid It: Guilt and Yourself; We Do Have Options: Guilt and Others; To Blame or to Accept: Guilt and Creation; Steadfast Love and Mercy: Guilt and God; Stage Seven: We Are Filled with Anger and Resentment; A Gap ... an Emptiness; Wrestling Our Resentments: Anger and Yourself
- We Don't Need a Scapegoat: Anger and OthersThe Ability to Say Goodbye: Anger and Creation; Disappointed? Anger and God; Stage Eight: We Resist Returning; To Remember, to Forget; Who Am I? Returning and Yourself; Go Home to Your Friends: Returning and Others; For the Winter Is Now Past: Returning and Creation; An End to Childish Ways: Returning and God; Stage Nine: Gradually Hope Comes Through; Something Quite Unexpected; The Blue Water Ahead: Hope and Yourself; Friendships-New and Renewed: Hope and Others; All Nature Sings: Hope and Creation; Simple Things: Hope and God
- Stage Ten: We Struggle to Affirm RealityNot as Those Who Have No Hope; A New Home: Reality and Yourself; People Who Need People: Reality and Others; A Renewed World: Reality and Creation; The Day the Lord Has Made: Reality and God; Grief and Hope; Notes; Back Cover