New Hope Grief Care

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Faith and Grief: Questions You’re Asking

Because you are grieving there is a real possibility that everything you have believed about life and how it work has been turned upside down and inside out. You are learning to navigate your days after the death of someone you have loved. Unending questions and feeling that begin when you wake up and stay with you until the end of the day.

This companion book to the New Hope Grief Journey looks to the questions surrounding faith and grief that have been asked and wrestled with by philosophers, faith leaders and those in the secular world. What is offered here is not the complete and final word on any of these questions but is just the beginning.

Maybe you are asking:

God is with me? God loves me? God is in control? God heals? Tell me about heaven. God’s listening? Anger and guilt in grief? What about suicide?

A Lament for Your Loved One

Grief exposes how we construct false control and safety in our weak hands and shows us things about ourselves like no other. We mostly live with the false notion that there is a “proper” way to grieve as we think we can self-guide and control our way through it. Very quickly we discover that grief is messy, unique and mostly very private. You are responsible for the brutal work of grieving. No one can do that for you.

But you don’t do it alone.

God knows that grief is indeed brutal work and has shown us a way to grieve and mourn loudly, even to wail. The thought of “lament’ is a scary one but it is also a gracious gift that God invites us to do freely. This small book is a guidepost to “lament” as we turn towards God, with an unfiltered response to our pain and suffering. We go to God in lament because we believe that He is the only One who can help us.

To know more about “Faith and Grief: Questions You’re Asking” and “Lament” contact jacky@newhopegriefcare.org or stacey@newhopegriefcare.org.