The Spiritual Journey of Grief

A Grief Observed is C.S. Lewis's honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed is an unflinchingly truthful account of how loss can lead even a stalwart believer to lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can gradually regain his

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In a struggling Dallas neighborhood, two unlikely allies--Sandra Kaye Darden whose missing adopted son draws her to her Uncle Poppy's home and Cass Blue who is struggling to survive on her own after ditching foster care--realize their ability to make a difference--and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul.

During the holiday season, a family of three, missing someone very dear to them, find their house filling up with unexpected guests, making Christmas memories to last a lifetime.

Kerrianne Huntington's perfect life was shattered one seemingly ordinary morning when her husband was killed in a car accident. Now, four years later, she still struggles with picking up all the pieces. Being a single mother of three active children keeps her plenty busy, but she can't help the loneliness that tears at her heart. When Kerrianne meets a widower with two children of his own, she finds herself wondering—is it possible to love

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When Ruby's grandmother, Miss Eula goes to visit a new grandchild in Hawaii, nine-year-old Ruby is sure that she will have a lonely and boring summer in Halleluia, Mississippi. After all, what other granddaughter-grandmother duo would drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from the slaughterhouse, or paint a hoise shellshock pink? Instead, Ruby makes a new friend, saves the school play, writes plenty of letters to her favorite (and only) grandmother...and...

After losing her first-born son in a tragic swimming accident, Dalton-Bradford thrust herself into bible verses, poems, and literature to find those who had experienced similar, devastating loss. She offers a family of voices, woven around her own healing process, that offer guidance, empathy, and most of all the faith to carry on.

Join experts Khris Ford, founder of My Healing Place, and Paula D'Arcy, a trained psychotherapist, as they help shed light on how adults and children grieve differently, how a parent can help a child grieve while they themselves are grieving, how to tell the truth about death to children, and more.