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    When Grief Breaks Your Heart
    When Grief Breaks Your Heart
    When Grief Breaks Your Heart
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    When Grief Breaks Your Heart

    By Rev. James W. Moore

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    Sooner or later, heartache comes to everyone. Sadness, sorrow, disappointment, mourning, grief—whatever people call it—is a fact of life. People need help in knowing how to deal with grief, how to work through it, and how to grow because of it.

    In When Grief Breaks Your Heart, best-selling author James W. Moore explores two major questions:
    • What does faith say about the grief experience?
    • How does faith help mend a broken heart?

    The book, therefore, is about grief and grace. Moore shows how these two words belong together:
    • God’s grace sustains people through the grief experience
    • God’s love supports people when they have nowhere else to turn
    • God’s grace brings the healing touch people so desperately need when their hearts are crushed.

    The book is appropriate for anyone who is experiencing grief. Pastors especially will find it helpful to keep a quantity on hand to pass out to people during grief experiences and grief counseling.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateJan 1, 1995
    ISBN9781426725302
    When Grief Breaks Your Heart
    Author

    Rev. James W. Moore

    James W. Moore (1938–2019) was an acclaimed pastor and ordained elder in The United Methodist Church. He led congregations in Jackson, TN; Shreveport, LA; and Houston, TX. The best-selling author of over 40 books, including Yes, Lord, I Have Sinned, But I Have Several Excellent Excuses, he also served as minister-in-residence at Highland Park United Methodist Church.

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      When Grief Breaks Your Heart - Rev. James W. Moore

      WHEN

      GRIEF

      BREAKS

      YOUR

      HEART

      Image1

      WHEN GRIEF BREAKS YOUR HEART

      Copyright © I99S by Abingdon Press

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission should be addressed to Abingdon Press, P.O. Box 801, 201 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37202.

      This book is printed on acid-free, recycled paper.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Moore, James J. Games Wendell), 1938-

      When Grief Breaks Your Heart/James W. Moore.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 0-687-00791-7 (alk. paper)

      1. Consolation. 2. Bereavement—Religious aspects-Christianity.

      I. Title.

      BV4905.2.M654 1995 248.8'6—dc20

      94-19609

      Scripture quotations are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, Copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission.

      ISBN-13:978-0-687-00791-2

      10 1 1 12 13 14-20 19 18 17 16

      MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      In memory of

      those special saints

      whose loss brought grief,

      but whose lives taught grace

      Contents

      __________________

      Introduction

      1. Healing Where It Hurts

      2. When Someone You Love Dies

      3. Bouncing Back from a Broken Heart

      4. Why Do Good People Suffer?

      5. Amazing Grace

      Epilogue:

      Three Personal Breakthroughs That Can

      Change Your Life

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      sooner or later, heartache comes to all of us. Sooner or later, one way or another, each of us will have to walk through the valley of grief. Sadness, sorrow, disappointment, mourning, grief— whatever we call it—will rear its head and cover us like a heavy blanket. The broken heart is a fact of life. We need help in knowing how to deal with it, how to work through it, and how to grow because of it.

      What does faith say to us about the grief experience? How does faith help to mend a broken heart? These are the questions we will explore in this book.

      A young man's wife died, leaving him with a small son. After returning from the cemetery, they went to bed as soon as it was dark, because there was nothing else the father could bear to do. As he lay there in the darkness—brokenhearted, grief-stricken, numb with sorrow—the boy broke the stillness from his little bed with a disturbing question: Daddy, where is Mommy?

      The father tried to get the boy to go to sleep, but the questions kept coming from his confused, childish mind. After a while, the father got up and brought the boy to bed with him. But the child was still disturbed and restless, and occasionally would ask a probing, heartbreaking question.

      Finally, the boy reached out in the darkness and placed his hand on his father's face, asking, Daddy, is your face toward me?

      Assured by his father's words, and by his own touch, that his father's face was indeed toward him, the boy said, If your face is toward me, I think I can go to sleep. And in a little while, he was quiet.

      The father lay there in the darkness and, in childlike faith, lifted up his own needy heart to his Father in heaven. He prayed something like this: O God, the way is dark, and I confess that I do not see my way through right now. But if your face is toward me, somehow I think I can make it.

      This book is about grief and grace. Those two words go together—belong together. It is God's amazing grace that holds us up and brings us through the grief experience. It is God's gracious love that supports us when we

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