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Here’s why:
In Mourning Glory, Lorelle and I
share a personal experience with grief in each devotional as well as how God
used that experience to reveal himself. For example, in her devotional entitled
Beauty of Humility, Lorelle describes her reflections on the humility
that takes place during the death process. “We strive to maintain our
independence. But the stages of disease stripped Harry of being able to
function on any level independently. Those he had trained now became his
support. Some of his young basketball players were his most faithful prayer
warriors. His dependence on God and others increased with each passing day…I
think the Lord sees beauty in humility, the beauty of us at our weakest point
reaching out to him for strength. Perhaps there is even greater beauty in the
humility of death. For that is when we step out of our weak physical bodies
into the newness of his life.”
We candidly share our questions, doubts
and reservations about God’s ways and means of dealing with us in our
difficulties. For example, in my devotional entitled With God Nothing is
Impossible, I admit there are times when I question God. My mother and I
had a horrible relationship. I confided to a dear friend that I didn’t think my
relationship with my mother would ever get better. My friend responded by
asking God to heal me and my mother before she died, to give us his love for
each other. How did God respond? “Mother had a stroke, took a fall and had hip
replacement. When she came out of the anesthetic she barely recognized anyone
but me, and all she knew about me was that I was close to her…I fell on my knees
that night, weeping, ‘Oh, why, merciful father, have you allowed mother to live
as a near vegetable? What is the purpose? I can’t believe you would do this to
me. Where is your compassion? Where is your love for me? Now you have really
deserted me in my hour of need.’ With this inauspicious beginning the tale of
mother’s and my healing commenced.”
We share our victories and insights into
grief in Mourning Glory because we want to help and encourage you as you
deal with your loss and grief. In the devotional A Place of Rest,
Lorelle describes how we can discover the anchor for our soul. “We can be
excited, happy, full of joy. Suddenly circumstances will swing us to the
opposite side of the pendulum, and we are dealing with grief, sorrow and
despair…We don’t have to deny these emotions. We can honestly embrace them and
express them but we don’t have to stay there. One of my pastors once told me
that grief is work and you can’t work endlessly 24 hours a day, day after day.
You must have some rest. We need rest from grief too. We can’t live in a
place of sorrow and grief continuously. The Lord has provided a rest from this
work of grief.” You, too, can discover the anchor for your soul and experience
the rest from grief that God wants to give to you.
We’ve recorded our experiences with
grief and loss, along with the valuable insights these experiences gave us,
because it is only through our experience with grief and loss that we have begun
to get a glimpse of the depth and breadth and richness of God’s character.
We’ve personally been enveloped in his healing solace, comfort and compassion.
We’ve marveled at his strength, power, faithfulness, holiness, truth, wisdom and
unconditional love that he has poured out on us. It is out of love and
gratitude for our Lord, because of the things he taught us about himself and
ourselves through our grief and loss, that we want to share our experiences with
you. We want you to become acquainted with the joy that can only be found in
knowing and experiencing God in the midst of grief.
To get your copy of Mourning Glory
click here.
The devotionals in Mourning Glory
cover a range of topics that deal with grief and grieving. From the experiences
we share with you in the book, you will gain understanding on how to deal with
grief in such everyday events as moving, loss of a pet, broken dreams,
bankruptcy and many more.
Throughout this book we highlight the
love and comfort of God that is available to us through the grieving process.
We are confident that as you read about our experiences you will discover for
yourself the joy of living in the midst of grief.
It is our deep desire to encourage and
inspire you as you struggle to recover from your loss and grief. We trust God
will use our pain and sorrow and the lessons we learned through them to help you
discover the beauty, joy and praise that God wants to draw out of you and your
life as the result of the grief and loss you are experiencing.
There is a lot of confusion surrounding
the trauma of mourning and grief. In writing Mourning Glory, we have endeavored
to lessen the confusion and soften the trauma. We believe that any book about
mourning and grief should:
1: Be based on Godly principles.
2: Include honest, personal
experiences.
3: Deal with the subject with both
humor and wisdom.
4: Show the way by which Godly
grief can transform you and your life.
5: Deal not only with the grief
associated with death and dying but with everyday losses.
Mourning Glory is based on these five
basic concepts. It will absolutely, positively help you grieve in a healthy,
healing, freeing manner that will allow you to experience God’s glory.
The wisdom and healing power in this
book is invaluable. We have experienced it, and continue to live it. We want
you to experience God’s wisdom and healing too.
We have included 66 separate devotionals
that cover many areas of grief. They include events ranging from childhood to
adulthood and encompass a lifetime of experiences in losses from everyday change
of job to the catastrophic tragedy of 911.
We are confident that the insights we
share from our experiences with grief and loss will also benefit you. To help
get this book into your hands we will pay the shipping to any destination inside
the United States.
For just $11.95, with FREE
shipping in the United States, you can get your copy of Mourning Glory today.
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Surely our grief's He Himself bore, and our sorrows He
carried… Isaiah 53:4a NAS
Just as from the darkest night the sun
causes the radiance of the morning glory, from our darkest hour of grief the Sod
of God causes his radiance to shine most brilliantly in us. Let us learn to
accept these gifts from his hand. Order your copy of Mourning Glory today.
Warmly,
Diana Burg, Author and Publisher
P.S. Tragedies like critical illness,
accident, natural disasters, handicaps and acts of terrorism expose us to
overwhelming grief. We want you to have this soft cover book of 224 pages,
containing 66 devotionals, all with scriptural references. We want you to
experience God’s glory, like we have, in the midst of grief.
P.P.S. Everyday events such as moving,
changing jobs, loss of a pet, broken dreams, divorce and bankruptcy cause
grief. It is at our weakest, most broken moments that God’s glory is most
perfectly revealed. He gives us beauty for ashes. He gives the oil of joy for
mourning. He gives a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. Find out
how. Order your copy of Mourning Glory today.
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