Grief Devotional

The death of your beloved pet can be one of the most heartbreaking losses you'll ever endure. But recovery isn't only about closure. You also want to know where your best friend has gone. After the intense, unexpected grief he experienced following the loss of his own companions, animal lover and biblical scholar Gary Kurz set out to prove that there are indeed pets in paradise. After devoting himself to countless hours of research, he now shares his inspiring insights to bring you a richer understanding of animals and their souls.

Discover quieted peace, sure hope, and strengthened faith that comes with praying God’s promises into suffering With Praying God’s Promises Into Suffering, written by best-selling author Lauri Hogle amid her own serious and progressively disabling chronic illness, readers will embark on a powerful 31-day journey into God’s Word. Through honest and authentic lament prayers, readers will discover intimate times of personal worship and growth in their relationship with Jesus Christ. This devotional Bible study prayer journal provides readers with: Comforting and sustaining grace in the ...

In times of suffering, simple answers often ring empty and hollow - so how can you find hope in hard times? Learn how to survive the difficult seasons with the comfort and of God's constancy. With sensitive, practical advice, Henri Nouwen gently points you toward a life that is grounded in God’s companionship and rooted within eternal hope. In this newly formatted edition, Turn My Mourning into Dancing discusses five movements we experience during hard times.

Biblical reflections helping you to have faith and to trust God in hard times. Life doesn’t always go the way we hoped, and sometimes God doesn’t answer our prayers the way we’d like. Challenging circumstances, especially ones with no immediate end in sight, can cause us to question God’s character, his purpose, and his ways. Each of these 20 biblical reflections examines a truth about God and shows how it provides an anchor for the soul in hard times.

31 Days Devotional: Prayers That Will Change Your Life Forever" Is a powerful prayer book that has brought miracles and positive transformations to millions of readers. This daily guide provides protection, breakthroughs, faith-building, and victory over challenges. It emphasizes the importance of daily communication with God and covers various aspects of life, including healing, marriage, financial prosperity, success, and overcoming disappointments. The book also addresses topics such as dealing with demons and witchcraft. With prophetic confessions and biblical support, it destroys the ...

The life of Colleen Chao was bright and beautiful—it was brimming with hope and possibility. She was a talented, confident, and ambitious young woman. So, Colleen never imagined that she’d swim through two decades of deep-water anxiety and depression. She didn’t guess that she’d marry late, suffer years of chronic pain and illness, and give birth to a child with health complications. In the Hands of a Fiercely Tender God is born of the suffering that on its own could have crushed Colleen.

Are life’s challenges leaving you restless and overwhelmed? Imagine embracing each day with God’s peace that passes all understanding. 10 Daily Affirmations for Serenity offers you a powerful path to inner calm, inspired by the timeless wisdom of the Serenity Prayer and rooted in God’s Word. This transformative mini-book presents 10 daily affirmations paired with uplifting Bible verses. Each affirmation guides you to: Reflect deeply on God’s promises. Align your thoughts with His truth. Find strength, hope, and direction for life’s uncertainties. Experience the peace that comes ...

Over twenty years later, Dee was still in love with her charming Southern gentleman when he passed away suddenly in 2007. Determined to carry on Johnnie’s work, Dee earned her mortuary science degree, only to find herself no longer needed in the family business. So Dee crossed the racial divide in the most segregated industry in America and joined the staff of an African-American funeral home as a single white woman. In The Undertaker’s Wife, Oliver draws from her experience to provide candid advice on dying well and surviving the loss of those who have gone before.

This compassionate book acts as a daily devotional companion to hurting people. Designed for adult listeners of all ages and stages in the grieving process, it is sensitively written by an author who suffered three miscarriages and the death of an infant son. She knows from firsthand experience that there are no easy answers for those who mourn.

Life can be hard. Although there are moments of beauty and goodness, more often than not, life is marked by fear, struggle, disappointment, and loss. And we don't know what to do with it. We've tried to find hope and security in various people and places—but each has proved unworthy of our trust. We need more. Something—or Someone—who won't fail us when our world falls apart. In this book, beloved author and Bible teacher Michele Cushatt presents a better way.

Wilderness Meditations is a 40-day devotional guide designed for the season of Lent, inviting readers on a journey toward deeper intimacy with Jesus in preparation for Easter. While originally created for Lent, the devotions are equally suited for times of fasting, spiritual retreats, small group studies, or personal spiritual growth throughout the year. Each day’s devotion centers on a specific aspect of Christ’s character, offering a theme for meditation, Scripture passages for reflection, and thoughtful guidance to help you engage in meaningful prayer. Designed to be completed in ...

Sorrow and suffering. Why would anyone write about such a thing or, worse, spend a month reading and doing the heavy spiritual work of meditating and praying through a devotional dealing with the most morbid machinations of the soul? In 2004, I moved to South Africa and came face to face with extreme poverty and the ravaging plague of AIDS. I held the hands of the starving and the dying. I cried out. Nothing changed. Years later, the same children were still hungry despite my best efforts. AIDS came to infect our closest friends. We fought. We often lost. The sorrow never released its grip....

Dear You, Here we are. Together. For whatever reason: only God knows. Maybe you heard me speak. Maybe a well-meaning friend gave you this book. Maybe you even bought it. Or maybe you found a copy in one of those cutesy, neighborhood book libraries, the ones that resemble chic little birdhouses? I may not be sure how you discovered this book, but I am sure of this: If you choose to read my scribbles, you will learn a bit of my story. It’s a tragic story, but one that’s buoyed by unexplainable joy. And my story has now interwoven with your story. Can I just tell you something? My ...

A Story of Unwavering Love, Unthinkable Loss, and Unshakable Faith For 25 years, Pastor John E. Miller and his wife, Carla, devoted their lives to caring for their son, Peter Flint Miller—a child with special needs who depended on them for everything. Every four hours, every single day, their love took the form of feeding, bathing, dressing, and comforting their son. But on March 8, 2025, Peter took his final breath, and their world changed forever. In Grace in the Hard Places, John and Carla share their raw, personal journey through caregiving, grief, and the faith that sustained them. ...

Quilting Through Adversity: Finding Strength in Fabric and Thread is an inspirational collection of heartfelt stories celebrating the resilience of quilters who have stitched their way through life’s deepest valleys. Each chapter follows a different woman overcoming hardship—grief, illness, loneliness, loss, and more—through the steady, healing act of quilting. From Log Cabins to Cathedral Windows, every story centers around a symbolic quilt block and is paired with: 🧵 A Quilt Block Spotlight Page – complete with visual, history, and meaning 📖 A Thread of Truth – a ...

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 for the way ahead. When Mountains Crumble offers you an interactive, healing journey through the big questions and emotions of grief. This book serves as your companion and guide, providing practical wisdom and thought-provoking questions that will help you wrestle with the pain you’re feeling.

Here is what readers are saying: "This collection of daily words and questions carefully and respectfully encouraged me to look deeply into my brokenness, to honestly examine my exile, and, so importantly, led me toward a land I'd thought was gone, a land called hope. If healing is coming into right relationship with our God and ourselves, then this collection of grace-balm words has brought me closer to my God and myself, with plenty of grace to offer to others along the way. Out of Exile - a graceful companion to a journey pastors and others may walk again." "I was personally challenged ...

The Jesus Response is a unique and inspiring work of fiction that offers readers a powerful glimpse into the mind and heart of Jesus as he reaches out to people facing a wide range of challenges in their lives. Written in the form of personal messages from Jesus to a diverse cast of characters, this book is sure to touch the hearts of readers of all backgrounds and faiths. As you read each of these messages, you will be struck by the wisdom, compassion, and insight that Jesus brings to every situation. Whether you are struggling with grief, fear, doubt, or any other challenge, you will find...

Have you ever found yourself in an unthinkable situation? Take the hand of Jesus and transform your pain into purpose. In "Unthinkable" Heather Bradley shares her deeply personal story of tragedy and the miraculous transformation that followed. In the darkest moment of her life, she found a hand reaching down, offering an exchange—suffering for healing, pain for freedom, and heartache for purpose. Through her journey, she discovered that by taking hold of Jesus’ hand, we can navigate the fiery trials of life and emerge stronger, filled with supernatural strength and confidence. In this ...

Unshakeable is a tiny book to pray you through the big stuff. Writing a book while waiting for a breakthrough was outside of my plans. However, the insights and treasures the Lord gave me in my shaky season were so loaded with wisdom and comfort that I knew I had to share them. Unshakeable was birthed in a period of weeping. It poured out of me with such ease, even though it hadn't been easy. As I hunkered into the shoulders of my King, I tethered myself to His strength. I knew that if I was entering a season of heartache, that only meant I was positioned for His nearness. If you picked ...