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Sifted: Diary of a Grieving Mother
The death of a child.
Bearing the unbearable.
A journey of faith.
Seventeen-year-old Sarah Harmening was killed while on a church mission trip. Through the pages of Sifted, you are invited to intimately journey alongside her mother as she wrestles through the excruciating questions, experiences, and emotions that accompany the death of a child.
With raw honesty, explore the depths of the valley of the shadow of death to reconcile shattering loss with faith in Jesus Christ. Witness the unexpectedly sweet mingling of sorrow with hope and peace. And discover, deep in the shadowed valley, a costly joy rendered by sorrow so pure and precious that it is “inexpressible and full of glory.”
Explore topics such as:
- Understanding Grief
- Hard Questions Like “What If?” and “Why?”
- Surviving the Many Hard Days and Dates
- Finding Hope
- Finding Joy
- Loneliness and Abandonment
- Spiritual Warfare
- Will It Ever Get Better?
Highlights:
- One hundred entries written over a span of seven years
- Each entry is a transparent account of wrestling through a specific question, experience, or struggle related to grief
- Entries may be read in chronological order as presented, or topically by using the included topical index.
- Read and be encouraged you are not alone.
What makes Sifted unique:
Individual entries written across a span of seven years provide the rare opportunity to journey alongside a grieving mother through the first seven years of grief.
Sifted can be read chronologically or topically. Both ways allow the reader to uniquely confront specific questions, emotions, and struggles of grief, and to observe through successive entries the progressive unfolding of greater understanding.
Sifted‘s topical index provides quick access to a wide variety of entries about specific experiences of grief, including many difficult days and dates: monthly and yearly anniversaries, various missed milestones, first holidays, birthdays, family celebrations, and so on.
Through the raw, honest and articulate entries contained in Sifted, grieving readers will discover they are not alone in their struggles, and be encouraged that there is hope, peace, and comfort sufficient to meet every sorrow already encountered, and each yet to come.
Reviews:
Amazon Customer
“Karen writes about the sudden loss of her teenage daughter with both honesty and courage, faithfully pointing the reader to Jesus, the source of her hope, in every sentence. This book is written in a diary format, with the early entries just after Sarah’s death and the later entries after years of walking through grief, and it provides a roadmap for survival of indescribable loss. Highly recommended!”
Austin DeArmond
“I have read much of Karen’s blog and have found it immensely helpful since my son went to Heaven. I have greatly appreciated her honesty, commitment to the great hope of the Gospel, and how her and her family have used this tragedy for the good of others and the glory of God. I believe this work is a valuable contribution to a body of works that are needed. How can parents who lower their children in the ground make it? A part of the answer is by seeking the sage wisdom and insight from other parents a little further along in this painful journey. I wholeheartedly recommend this book for those who have faced that impossible loss or those who desire to help those who have faced such a loss. May Sarah’s story continue to bring God great praise and glory!”
Anthony M Armstrong.
“A must read for anyone walking through grief, especially the loss of a child. This book is beautifully written and clearly points to the hope we have in Jesus even through darkest valley.”
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