We can't really prepare for grief. The only experts on grief are those who have survived it and then helped others do the same. Retreat leader, former psychotherapist, and bestselling author Paula D’Arcy is one of those experts. In ...

Where is God when your world falls apart? What happens when everything you thought you knew about how God operates is torn to shreds by tragedy? Jerry Deans has experienced devastating loss first-hand, but tragedy does not have the fi...

Behind monastery walls, men of God spend their lives preparing for the passage of death. Best-selling French author Nicolas Diat set out to find what their deaths can reveal about the greatest mystery faced by everyone―the end of li...

Dr. Stephen Doran draws from his vast experience as a neurosurgeon, a bioethicist, and a permanent deacon to present the Catholic perspective on the art of dying well. The spiritual and moral issues related to death and the process of...

By exploring the ethics of resisting and accepting death from a Christian perspective, Nancy Duff encourages Christians to talk about death in the context of Christian faith. Making Faithful Decisions at the End of Life helps readers ...

If you've lost a spouse, child, family member, or friend, you've discovered that few people understand the deep hurt you feel. Where do you turn for daily comfort and help? Where do you find the tools to move forward? Through a Seaso...

Alain Emerson felt like the luckiest man in the world. A talented young pastor of a thriving church and national director of a prayer movement, he had found and married Lyndsay, the girl of his dreams, his soul mate.He could never hav...

The loss of a loved one is often devastating. And while each of us experience grief in a unique way, for many, finding their way back to a place of wholeness seems impossible. The emptiness, loneliness and darkness seem to never fade....

When we grieve, we all long for light in the dark places. We need a light to warm our hearts when they are chilled by grief. For Those Who Grieve includes 22 brief devotions and prayers, drawing on the saints, Scripture, and modern re...

"The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, saves those whose spirit is crushed." (Ps 34:19)You might feel, in the days and weeks after a miscarriage, like the Lord is anything but close. Laura and Franco Fanucci understand. Af...

Grief can come in many forms and for many reasons. But grief of any kind forces us to ask the questions "What do I do next?" and "How will I go on?" Unfortunately, as we ache for our lives to be the way they once w...

More than 1 million women suffer fetal loss each year, yet most of those women will struggle to find words to share their grief or describe their experience. As some of the least talked about types of loss, miscarriage, stillbirth, an...

What would you do if the unthinkable happened? Where would you find the strength to endure? The Gordon family was confronted with that very challenge when their five-year-old son, Sawyer, known for his big blue eyes and vivacious sp...

"I'm sorry, there's no heartbeat." In one moment, everything changes. Women who have a miscarriage experience a betrayal by their body, a loss of identity, a roller coaster of emotions, and a crisis of faith. Where is God in...

How do you continue to find God as dementia pulls your loved one into the darkness? Nothing is simple for a person suffering from dementia, and for those they love. When ordinary tasks of communication, such as using a phone, become c...

The church\'s relationship with depression has been fraught: for centuries, depression was assumed to be evidence of personal sin or even demonic influence. The depressed have often been ostracized or institutionalized. In recent ...

What does it look like for a believer to face the difficult reality of death through the ultimate reality of Christ? How do we live and die like we really believe the gospel is true? Readers at every stage of life will find comfort an...

When someone we love is grieving, we want to be there. But it's easy to feel paralyzed, worried that we might say or do the wrong thing. Nancy Guthrie has personal experience dealing with pain and knows what words of encouragement are...

The death of a child at any age, shatters the parent's heart and causes a complicated grief which never goes away. Dr. Sue Hamby found the murdered body of her only child, Russ, on March 21, 2013, and started on a difficult and painfu...

Following her successful Glimpses of Heaven, Trudy Harris has collected even more true stories of the tender beauty and pain of life's end. Through her own stories and those of medical professionals and hospice workers, Harris brings ...

It's winter in Utah and a snowstorm is creating blizzard conditions. Stephen wonders who could be knocking at his front door. It's a young child with no coat and no other adults accompanying her. Joanna charms her way into Stephen's h...

It’s easy to get off track when your heart is broken and your mind numb. When well-meaning people try to help, but instead say insensitive things that hurt and do not reflect the Word or heart of God. Loss and grief can derail a l...

Losing means grieving.Grieving means choices.Choices mean hurt or healing. You’ve lost someone you love. Or you’re on the brink of losing your marriage. Your dreams. Your health. Or perhaps the trauma of your past pursues ...

A picture book to guide the reader through different emotions and reactions related to grieving. The text and illustrations of this lushly colored picture book guide the reader through different emotions and reactions related to grie...

A daughter is unprepared to become the caregiver of her father. Accepting this assignment, one she was chosen for, changes her life.Come along on one woman's personal journey through heartache, denial, and struggle to a new place of g...

How do we make sense of what feels senseless? Grief leaves us with empty arms and fistfuls of questions. If we don’t get help processing our loss, we can easily get stuck there. But take heart—there is hope to be found fo...

Does God's perfect plan really include this?When her young son was diagnosed with brain cancer, Jessica Kelley couldn't stomach Christian cliches. God's will? Divine design? The Lord's perfect plan? In Lord Willing?, Kelley boldly tac...

Drawing on the passion of Christ, Sr. Nuala Kenny reflects on the inevitable questions we all face regarding health, illness, suffering, and dying. She provides a profound spiritual and biblical reflection by linking Jesus own experie...

In Letters to John Paul, Elena Kilner opens her heart to us; in fact, she bears her very soul as she shares her insights into the significance of the life of her terminally ill son. Words could never adequately describe the suffering...

Experienced loss? Struggling with grief? Need hope? Joe is no stranger to these emotions. Musician and author, Joe KNIGHT and his wife Shaunda are from Greenville Texas. It was here that Joe completed a 35 year ministry career as well...