On the flights to and from Iquique, I read a book that has been sitting on my shelf for awhile. I believe I picked it up at a book exchange at the WOTH conference last October, but until now I had not taken the time to really look at it.
Entitled A Grace Disguised, it is the story of the author's journey through grief after losing three generations of his family - his mother, wife, and youngest daughter - in a tragic car accident involving a drunk driver.
It is truly an amazing book.
Gerald Sittser does not offer any platitudes or suggest any shortcuts through the grieving process. Instead, he journals his own experiences - and those of his surviving young children - through the darkest of days. Ultimately he focuses on how grief can transform our lives. I highly recommend taking the time to read this book.
In the words of the publisher:
Entitled A Grace Disguised, it is the story of the author's journey through grief after losing three generations of his family - his mother, wife, and youngest daughter - in a tragic car accident involving a drunk driver.
It is truly an amazing book.
Gerald Sittser does not offer any platitudes or suggest any shortcuts through the grieving process. Instead, he journals his own experiences - and those of his surviving young children - through the darkest of days. Ultimately he focuses on how grief can transform our lives. I highly recommend taking the time to read this book.
In the words of the publisher:
The experience of loss does not have to be the defining moment of our lives, writes Gerald Sittser. Instead, the defining moment can be our response to the loss. It is not what happens to us that matters so much as what happens in us. Sittser knows. A tragic accident introduced him to loss of a magnitude few of us encounter. But this is not a book about one man's sorrow. It's about the grace that can transform us in the midst of sorrow.
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I have read that book several times over the past few years. . . it is nothing short of amazing!
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