Grief

Featured Book: Can You Hear Me? by Y. Y. Chan

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Can You Hear Me?
Death, loss and grief are topics we often avoid discussing with our children. However, these events can occur at any time in our lives, without warning. Avoiding these topics will only make it more difficult to cope with the sorrow and grief when it does happen. This book aims to help families and communities start those difficult conversations and to approach the topic in a sensitive manner, focusing on hope, faith, love and compassion, and removing the fear associated with it.

Can good things really come from bad things?
Why does God allow bad things to happen?
Will Daddy still be able to hear me from Heaven?
These are just some of the questions Renee starts thinking about after she finds out that her daddy has cancer. All she can think to do is pray and ask God to make her daddy better. But when she realises he isn’t, she begins to wonder what God’s plan is, and whether God can hear her prayers at all. She documents all the things that are happening in her diary as she watches her daddy go through the stages of cancer. Through this painful experience, she learns about the meaning of faith and how she can stay connected to her beloved father after he is gone.

Don’t wait until it’s too late to start the conversation. There is no fear in death when we have love, and believe in God. Grab a copy of this book and start sharing with your loved ones today.

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Stars Upside Down – a memoir of travel, grief, and an incandescent God by Jennie Goutet

At seventeen, Jennie Goutet has a dream that she will one day marry a French man and sets off to Avignon in search of him. Though her dream eludes her, she lives boldly—teaching in Asia, studying in Paris, working and traveling for an advertising firm in New York.

When God calls her, she answers reluctantly, and must first come to grips with depression, crippling loss, and addiction before being restored. Providence takes her by the hand as she marries her French husband, works with him in a humanitarian effort in East Africa, before settling down in France and building a family.

Told with honesty and strength, Stars Upside Down is a brave, heart-stopping story of love, grief, faith, depression, sunshine piercing the gray clouds—and hope that stays in your heart long after it’s finished.

Targeted Age Group:: 21 – 90

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I was a blogger first, and I used to include stories about my time in Asia and Africa. Readers often encouraged me to write a book, but I thought my stories lacked a coherent thread to tie the stories together. It was not until I'd healed from another bout of grief that I saw that God had indeed given me a coherent story to tell.

Stars Upside Down is the tale of a majestic God, who pursues us to the four ends of the earth, who leads us with cords of human kindness, a God who is rich in mercy, and who shepherds us through the hills and valleys of life until He brings us into His glory.

Remembering Will by Jim Yackel

Memory is pain, but there are some things he’ll never forget…

At thirty-nine years of age, Will Gailey is an “over the hill” singer-songwriter who leads a rock band that the music business doesn’t consider to have the “now” sound. A trauma has rocked his world, and as a result his memory of events has been severely affected. Will can remember the lyrics and chord changes to his songs, but there are other things that seemingly he’s forgotten. Will has always enjoyed fishing, but even that relaxing activity has become a source of frustration. He’s become angry and disassociated, and has turned from the one thing that could bring him peace and healing. And where that one thing is concerned, that’s where his anger and the blame for his physical and spiritual pain are errantly directed. In his mind, that one thing is the cause for his loss and his suffering.

Months after the trauma, Will continues to suffer crushing headaches. He decides to take matters into his own hands as what is supposed to heal his anguish is only exacerbating it. He’s become weakened, vulnerable, and open to spiritual torment. He’s alone and in need of help, but when people come into his life that can be of assistance he’s apt to reject them. Vivid dreams, visions, and hallucinations occur, and in them are both the help he needs and likewise persecution. Will was a strong man, but now there’s a strong man that’s found a breach and is creating havoc in his life. Will remembers how to defeat the strong man, but it seems that he’s chosen to forget.

Will has changed, but band mates and friends remember how he “used to be.” Can he be the way he used to be again?

Targeted Age Group:: 18+

What Inspired You to Write Your Book?
I have to admit that the inspiration for Remembering Will came out of the blue. My previous works have all been related to the biblical end of days, but as I was driving on snow-covered roads in the record-breaking cold of February 2015, I thought of warm weather and fishing. Then, as a musician myself, I began to think about struggling musicians that would be considered over the hill by music business standards. The two themes of music and fishing merged together in my mind. From that, I thought of a character named Will who is a musician that enjoys fishing. His troubles and torments grew out of that as I drove, and the ideas of trauma and memory loss came from there. I thought about pain and medication and likewise the loss of faith and hope. This poor guy Will, what would happen to him? What would cause his physical pain and spiritual and mental torments? I had to get home and start writing! I have to admit that the story ripped me up as I began to put it together.

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