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    Everyday Comfort: Meditations for Seasons of Grief
    Everyday Comfort: Meditations for Seasons of Grief
    Everyday Comfort: Meditations for Seasons of Grief
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    Everyday Comfort: Meditations for Seasons of Grief

    By Randy Becton

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    People who are mourning the loss of a dear friend or beloved family member often feel alone, abandoned, and helpless. And those who want to comfort them can feel inadequate and at a loss for words. In Everyday Comfort grievers will find thirty daily devotions to help them through their heartache. Respecting the griever's anguish and emotional turmoil, these devotions avoid platitudes and offer genuine empathy and wisdom. Subjects like recovery, facing death, normal grief and abnormal grief, and using the Psalms daily will help those who grieve examine the path through despair and take the next steps toward living life again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateDec 1, 2006
    ISBN9781441202499
    Everyday Comfort: Meditations for Seasons of Grief
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    Randy Becton

    Randy Becton is minister at large with Herald of Truth Television. He is the executive director of Caring Cancer Ministry in Abilene, Texas, which he founded after both he and his mother battled cancer.

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      Everyday Comfort - Randy Becton

      Everyday

      Comfort

      Everyday

      Comfort

      MEDITATIONS FOR SEASONS OF GRIEF

      Randy Becton

      © 1993 by Randy Becton

      Published by Baker Books

      a division of Baker Publishing Group

      P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

      New paperback edition published 2006

      ISBN 10: 0-8010-6788-X

      ISBN 978-0-8010-6788-4

      Printed in the United States of America

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

         The Library of Congress has cataloged the original edition as follows: Becton, Randy

            Everyday comfort: readings for the first month of grief / Randy Becton.

               p. cm.

            Includes bibliographical references.

            ISBN 0-8010-1066-7

            1. Grief—Religious aspects—Christianity. I. Title.

         BV4905.2.B34 1993

         242'.4—dc20

      93-3971

      Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture is taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture marked TLB is taken from The Living Bible, copyright © 1971. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

      Scripture marked Phillips is taken from The New Testament in Modern English, revised edition—J. B. Phillips, translator. © J. B. Phillips 1958, 1960, 1972. Used by permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.

      CONTENTS

      Preface

      Chapter 1 It’s Okay to Cry

      Chapter 2 Does Anyone Understand My Grief?

      Chapter 3 Make a New and Special Friendship

      Meditations

      Day 1 Survival Is Sure

      Day 2 Grief Complications You Can Avoid

      Day 3 When Is It Time to Cry?

      Day 4 Other Grievers Teach Us

      Day 5 Facing Your Own Death

      Day 6 The Many Faces of Grief

      Day 7 A Set of Goals

      Day 8 Answers

      Day 9 Your Special Needs

      Day 10 Knowing Your Signs of Recovery

      Day 11 Knowing What Sorrow Means

      Day 12 Normal Grief and Abnormal Grief

      Day 13 Books That Are Easy to Read and Helpful to Those Who Grieve

      Day 14 Using the Psalms Daily

      Day 15 Great Saints Faced Despair

      Day 16 Reaffirm the Center for Your Life

      Day 17 Your Recovery Will Be Unique to You

      Day 18 Let Another Person’s Faith Stand with You

      Day 19 The Truth about Partial Truths

      Day 20 Solitude’s Value

      Day 21 The Horrible Pain

      Day 22 A Possible Strategy of Satan

      Day 23 No Condemnation or Judgment

      Day 24 Do Not Judge Yourself

      Day 25 Learning from the Darkness of Another

      Day 26 Understanding Grief

      Day 27 Getting through Grief

      Day 28 Four Paths That Delay Grief

      Day 29 The Intensity of Grief

      Day 30 What to Do with Time?

      Conclusion

      Appendix 1 A Letter to Becky’s Father

      Appendix 2 Preparing for the Holidays

      Notes

      PREFACE

      Why did I write this book? Because your grief really matters—to God, for sure, but also to me. I do not say, I know how you feel, but I daresay, I have felt the numbness, the loneliness, the questions, the emptiness that result from losing someone you dearly love. I would like to be there with you, to sit quietly, to listen. I want to be your brother in your sorrow. I write with confidence that your grief is understood fully by God.

      Counselor C. W. Brister is right to observe that when hearts are broken, persons do not need explanations. They need the healing presence of God.1 Counselor Larry Crabb correctly says that people are hurting more deeply than we know.2

      Real encouragement takes place in your life when you feel understood in your pain and receive loving words and actions that help you experience God’s love and healing. Scripture says that encouraging each other is a work that honors God and results in strengthened confidence in God. If this book helps you strengthen your grip on God’s love, you will be encouraged.

      Your heart at times may say, I am afraid. I hope you can move to the confidence that responds, I will not fear. Your heart may on occasion ask, Why am I forsaken? But you, through restating God’s promise I am with you, will be equipped to respond, Yes, you are with me.

      1

      IT’S OKAY TO CRY

      Life does go on. Death is not reversible. Persons who have lost loved ones experience the wrenching pain between knowing one reality but desperately craving another reality. To know what is real does not mean to like it or even to be prepared at this moment to accept it. Grievers even may try to undo the reality of a loved one’s death. To act this way is understandable and may be necessary before they can finally say good-bye.

      Your grief is a bridge between your loss (the now) and the direction in which you grow (the future). I am not saying to you that something good will come out of this, for I do not want to minimize your grief. But soon you will begin to work on two tasks that you will successfully complete when you are ready: (1) your need to disengage or let go, and (2) your need to reattach or reinvest.

      In the days, weeks, and months to come, you will try to accept nurture and care from others. While your needs continue to be met, the time is coming when you will reinvest your unique, God-given strengths in living. Leroy Joesten puts it this way: There is a time to be helped and a time to stand on one’s own.1

      You need to be comforted and supported, but you also need to be gently challenged to confront your grief. Grieving is uniquely personal. No one can do

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