What Loss Can Teach Us: A Sacred Pathway to Growth and Healing: A Sacred Pathway to Healing

"Often when we experience the heartache of a significant loss, we choose to patch ourselves up, put our heads down, and contort ourselves around our pain. The rush is on to get back to status quo. Yet, what if our good, compassionate God longs for each of us to be on the formational journey towards becoming an emotionally and spiritually mature adult and offers us an "on-ramp" to that experience through stewarding our pain? Typically, though, we want to shut pain down in the fastest way possible-and most of us have many strategic ways of doing so. Set in the context of the author's own story of loss, What Loss Can Teach Us offers stepping stones for the journey of not "getting through" the chaos of loss and pain but saying yes to the invitation of emotional and spiritual formation. Spiritual practices that serve as meaningful companions for the process are included"--