Mourning Into Dancing by Walter Wangerin Jr. - 9780310207658

Zondervan

Mourning Into DancingMany Things Can Cause Sorrow, God Alone Turns Our Sadness into Joy\nAuthor(s): Walter Wangerin Jr.\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Zondervan, United States\nImprint: Zondervan\nISBN-13: 9780310207658, 978-0310207658\nSynopsis\n\""Death doesn't wait till the ends of our lives to meet us and to make an end,\"" says Walter Wangerin. \""Instead, we die a hundred times before we die; and all the little endings on the way are like a slowly growing echo of the final BANG!\"" Yet out of our many losses, our \""little deaths,\"" comes a truer recognition of life. It is found in our relationships with ourselves, with our world, with others, and with our Creator. This is the dancing that can come out of mourning: the hope of restored relationships. Mourning into Dancing defines the stages of grief, names the many kinds of loss we suffer, shows how to help the grief-stricken, gives a new vision of Christ's sacrifice, and shows how a loving God shares our grief. We learn from this b""