Grace Disguised, A

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Summary: This guy really gets it!
Review: This book helped me to understand that there are many kinds of loss - not just those lost because of death. Sittser really understood. I found myself underlining parts of the book where it seemed he was putting into words what I was feeling. It helped me to understand what grace really is and it was comforting to know that there was someone else out there who could carry the pain of their loss and still have a normal life again...even after they felt like they had nothing left to go on for.

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Summary: A rare gem.
Review: This book is a grace disguised as a book. Touching and compelling, it makes the strongest case for stepping into, not away from, the "long dark night of the soul." If I could only select one book to give my friends, or anyone for that matter, besides the Bible, this would be it

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Summary: Powerful & insightful, but light on theology
Review: This is a great book for anyone who wants to understand what happens to people who experience great loss in their lives - whether through death, divorce, unemployment or illness. And it would be effective for anyone who is called to minister to people who have suffered or are suffering great loss. Sittser weaves his own experience and those of others into his discussion effectively. There is not the Biblical basis for his views I would have liked to have seen - odd for a professor of religion. But, it's well worth the time of anyone struggling with loss or ministering to those in that situation. And face it, sooner or later that's all of us.

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Summary: Insightful and illuminating
Review: This is one of the best books on grief and coping with great loss since Lewis' "A Grief Observed." Anyone who has lost a child, spouse, parent or suffered other trauma will greatly benefit from this immensely helpful book.