Hope - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hope write by Alan D. Wolfelt. This book was released on 2010-08. Hope available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Addressing the inevitable grief that accompanies the loss of a loved one, this encouraging and supportive reference provides comfort in the midst of overwhelming sadness. Preventing mourners from becoming tangled in a web of despair, this guide shows how the smallest amount of hope can be nurtured into a confident sense of being, lighting the path towards a future of love, joy, and meaning. Featuring a series of reflective passages and quotations, this handbook makes it possible to roll up one's sleeves and make healing a reality.
The Mourner's Dance
The Mourner's Dance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mourner's Dance write by Katherine Ashenburg. This book was released on 2010-01-12. The Mourner's Dance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is no doubt that the death of a loved one has a profound - and unpredictable - effect on the lives of those left behind. Mourning is the price we pay for love. But how does anyone survive those first weeks, months, and even years after a death, and then eventually return to normal life? When her daughter's fiancé died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg found herself drawn into the world of mourning customs. Finding little comfort in the stripped-down North American approach, she sought solace, and shaped the core of this much-praised book, by exploring the rich traditions that have sustained mourners in cultures around the world and across centuries. Intertwining anecdotes from past and present with her own story, Ashenburg uncovers the wisdom and creativity embedded in mourning rituals and their value in rebuilding those unravelled by loss. Somehow, as Ashenburg so deftly reveals, we find strength and go on living. With a new afterword by the author.
The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner
The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner write by Alan D Wolfelt. This book was released on 2009-04-01. The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Partly a counseling model and partly an explanation of true empathy, this handbook explores the ways companionship eases grief. For caretakers who work with grieving people or for friends and family just hoping to stay close, 11 tenets are outlined for mourner-led care. These simple rules call for understanding another person's pain, listening with the heart rather than the head, not filling up every minute with words, respecting confusion and disorder, and relying on curiosity rather than expertise.
The Mourner's Song
The Mourner's Song - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mourner's Song write by James Tatum. This book was released on 2004-05. The Mourner's Song available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No matter when or where they are fought, all wars have one thing in common: a relentless progression to monuments and memorials for the dead. Likewise all art made from war begins and ends in mourning and remembrance. In The Mourner's Song, James Tatum offers incisive discussions of physical and literary memorials constructed in the wake of war, from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to the writings of Stephen Crane, Edmund Wilson, Tim O'Brien, and Robert Lowell. Tatum's touchstone throughout is the Iliad, not just one of the earliest war poems, but also one of the most powerful examples of the way poetry can be a tribute to and consolation for what is lost in war. Reading the Iliad alongside later works inspired by war, Tatum reveals how the forms and processes of art convert mourning to memorial. He examines the role of remembrance and the distance from war it requires; the significance of landscape in memorialization; the artifacts of war that fire the imagination; the intimate relationship between war and love and its effects on the ferocity with which soldiers wage battle; and finally, the idea of memorialization itself. Because all survivors suffer the losses of war, Tatum's is a story of both victims and victors, commanders and soldiers, women and men. Photographs of war memorials in Vietnam, France, and the United States beautifully augment his testimonials. Eloquent and deeply moving, The Mourner's Song will speak to anyone interested in the literature of war and the relevance of the classics to our most pressing contemporary needs.
Mourner, Mother, Midwife
Mourner, Mother, Midwife - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mourner, Mother, Midwife write by L. Juliana M. Claassens. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Mourner, Mother, Midwife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Juliana Claassens explores alternative Old Testament metaphors that portray God as mourner, mother, and midwife--images that resist the violence and bloodshed associated with the dominant warrior imagery
