| A book that is as good as The Shack, IMO |
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| I picked up a book that everybody should read (maybe) that did for me what The Shack did for others... A Grace Disguised, by Jerry L. Sittser is the best book I have ever read on grief and loss. Every kind of loss imaginable is processed in this work. Sittser himself lost three generations in a car wreck. Although his own loss was senseless and immediate, it's interesting to see that he got a handle also on the kinds of loss that are very, very slow as well as losses that are deliberate (resulting from cruelty) and even those that result from wrong choices. I never thought about all these avenues to loss before. He talks about the preciousness of life and how that figures into the preciousness of what we lose. I wish I could share online what it's done for me to read such a work. In my case, I didn't even know exactly what my loss was or why I suffered such awful depression off and on since childhood, but I finally uncovered the original cause that everything else has played into. So for me, it's exciting to finally solve the riddle, though I don't know yet how recovery will be finalized. Still, it gives me great hope. So, for everyone who suffers from bitterness, anger, depression or off-and-on sadness...this is the book for you. |
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