A Force of Will: The Reshaping of Faith in a Year of Grief
When Mike Stavlund's four-month-old son suddenly died, a flood of cards, flowers, meals, phone calls and gifts let his family know that they were loved and cared for. What was less welcome were the books - particularly the religious ones. Often impossibly upbeat, saccharin... Read More
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When Mike Stavlund's four-month-old son suddenly died, a flood of cards, flowers, meals, phone calls and gifts let his family know that they were loved and cared for. What was less welcome were the books - particularly the religious ones. Often impossibly upbeat, saccharine sweet and with all kinds of confident promises, they seemed to increase the pain rather than soothing it. Though Mike could plainly see that these writers meant well, their preoccupation with defending pristine ideas about God from the suddenly obvious truth of God's unkindness created a cognitive dissonance of such scale that he simply put them away. They were too painful to read and too offensive to bear.
Instead, he wrote his own book, one week at a time during that first terrible year - a book that embraced the stark reality of loss, the sense of alienation from all of life, the feelings of suffocation at the hands of the well-meaning people gathered around and the new awareness of feeling abandoned by God. A Force of Will: The Reshaping of Faith in a Year of Grief will help anyone who is going through difficulty to honestly confront their feelings without being made to feel guilty. With heartfelt honesty, Mike shows that there is hope - even when there is no happy ending.
Product Details:
Page Count: 224
Released: 03/2013
Additional Information
- Product type: Book
- Format: Softcover
- Release Date: Mar 1, 2013
- UPC: 9780801015113
- Height: 0
- Width: 0
- Length: 0
- Volumes/Discs: 1
- Pages: 222
- Publish Date: Mar 1, 2013
- Audience Age Maximum: 0
- Audience Age Minimum: 0
- BISAC: "REL012010"
- ISBN: 0801015111
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