A Time to Grieve

I had planned on having a "page" to list books or articles that may be helpful to others, but there are so many of those availbable, changed my mind.  Rather, now and again I would like to share a title with a short description so you may consider if you would really like to purchase or obtain the book.

There is a beautiful book called:  A Time to Grieve...Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Loved One, by Carol Staudacher...

The awesome thing about this book is its format.  It is written as a daily meditation book, so that it is easy to pick up and flip through, finding a thought that matches your feelings for the day.  I found that and have mentioned that when I read "whole books", there was often a lot of narrative that wasn't particularly helpful, but worth it to me to weed out and keep looking for what was.  If you are not a reader by nature, I am sure this wouldn't be appealing to you.

However, this book presents snippets that can be literally read in about three to five minutes.  They are presented page by page, so again, it is simple to flip through and something that is meaningful to you at that moment may catch your eye.  The top of the page is a sentence which presents the core of the writing on that page.  Then there is an adage or proverb, then discussion of the topic, and at the bottom of the page, a meditation.

This is an excerpt from the book:
Some survivors try to think their way through grief.  That doesn't work.  Grief is a releasing process, a discovery process, a healing process.  We cannot release or discover or heal by the use of our minds alone.  The brain must follow the heart at a respectful distance.  It is our hearts that ache when a loved one dies.  It is our emotions that are most drastically affected.  Certainly the mind suffers, the mind recalls, the mind may plot and plan and wish, but it is the heart that will blaze the trail through the thicket of grief. ---from A Time to Grieve