When You Lose Someone You Love

Comfort for Those Who Grieve

Richard Exley

• Publisher: David C Cook
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781434764805
• eBook ISBN: 9781434702494

There is nothing more devastating than the death of a loved one. And whether it comes suddenly and unexpectedly, or at the end of a long and painful illness, every death is experienced anew, a shocking loss that takes our breath away and leaves us disoriented and lost.

Grief is mysterious, misunderstood, and experienced differently from individual to individual, yet there are certain universal elements. In this compassionate epistolary handbook on grief, a pastor offers comfort and understanding to a man suffering a profound loss, showing grief as a healthy process that God can use to mend broken hearts.

Revised and updated, this twentieth-anniversary edition features prayers and scripture meditation, as well as a new introduction and epilogue. Simple, profound, personal, compassionate … When You Lose Someone You Love tenderly walks the grief-stricken through sorrow to peace and, eventually, renewed joy.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Note to the Reader
• 1. When Death Comes
• 2. Without Warning
• 3. The Truth About Grief
• 4. The Tides of Grief
• 5. The Pitfalls of Grief
• 6. The Promise of His Presence
• 7. The Depth of His Love
• 8. If God Is for Us
• 9. In My Father’s House
• Epilogue: Telling Daddy Good-bye
• Bibliography
• About the Author
• Extras