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Grieving Room
- Making Space for All the Hard Things After Death and Loss
- Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
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Publisher's Summary
When we lose someone we love, we are forever changed. When our person dies, our grief needs room.
Leanne Friesen thought she knew a lot about bereavement. She had studied it in school and preached at memorial services. But only when her own sister died from cancer did she learn, in her very bones, what grieving people don't need—and what they do. In Grieving Room, Friesen writes with vulnerability, wisdom, and somehow even wit about the stark and sacred lessons learned at deathbeds and funerals. When someone dies, we need room for imperfect goodbyes, she writes, and room for a changing faith. We need room for regret and room to rage at the world. Room for hard holidays and room in our schedules. We need room for redemption and room for resurrection—and we also need room to never "get over it."
In this poignant account of a sister's mourning and a pastor's journey, Friesen pushes back against a world that wants to minimize our sorrow and avoid our despair. She helps those of us walking with the grieving figure out what to say and what not to say, and she offers practical ways to create ample space for every emotion and experience. Reflection questions, practices, and prayers at the end of the book offer guidance and ideas for individuals and groups.
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- Anonymous User
- 2024-03-07
Much needed guide to navigating grief
As someone who has always struggled with finding the right thing to say and finding the right way to express my love and support to a grieving friend or family member, I found this book to be thoughtful, enlightening and helpful.
Friesen writes from a Christian lens, but even as someone who has deliberately moved away from all church and religion, I appreciated her kind and compassionate perspective, her recognition that any grieving individual needs room to work through a multitude of unexpected and often painful emotions.
I was especially moved by her later chapters Room to Reconsider and Room for Resurrection. The former asserts that it is healthy and helpful to move beyond religious faith and certainty, and in doing so provide space for wrestling with doubt and being okay with what is unknown. In the latter chapter, Friesen take the theme of Christian resurrection and spins it in an unexpected way, providing a window into how she worked through her pain and grief, using her theological education and religious beliefs to arrive at some form of personal resolution and contentment. Normally I shy away from anything remotely religious, but I was moved by this chapter - because at the end of the day, aren't we all just trying to make sense of the world and the unfair tragedies that unfold around us? I may not align with any religion, but I align with anyone mindfully working through their feelings to arrive at some form of internal peace.
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