Sifted

Karen Harmening

• 04 juni 2024
• 9798990551527

Samenvatting:

The death of a child.
Bearing the Unbearable.
A journey of faith.

The complex questions, experiences, and emotions that accompany deep grief are painfully isolating. Seize this rare opportunity to intimately journey alongside a grieving mother through the first seven years of grief. Candidly confront many painful yet common struggles of grief, and reconcile shattering loss with faith in God.

June 8, 2017, Scott and Karen Harmening’s seventeen-year-old daughter, Sarah, was killed in a tragic church bus crash outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Scott was driving behind the bus and watched helplessly as it crossed into the adjacent lane striking another vehicle, sharply overcorrected, and then flipped across the interstate.

After crawling through the wreckage to get to Sarah, he frantically called Karen to tell her to pray for Sarah who was pinned beneath the wreckage. Karen and their remaining daughters prayed together and hurriedly began the three-and-a-half hour drive from Huntsville, Alabama, to Scott and Sarah in Atlanta; only to learn upon their arrival that Sarah had died hours before.

Karen, a Christian writer and blogger, immediately began writing to process the excruciating questions, experiences, and emotions that accompany the death of a child; Sifted is the collected work of seven years of those writings. Through the pages of Sifted, you are invited to intimately journey alongside her as she wrestles through the excruciating questions, experiences, and emotions that accompany the death of a child.

Through the transparent entries witness the unexpectedly sweet mingling of sorrow with hope and peace. And discover deep in the shadowed valley a costly joy rendered by sorrow so pure and precious that it is “inexpressible and full of glory.”

Explore topics such as:

Understanding Grief
Hard Questions Like “What If?” and “Why?”
Surviving the Many Hard Days and Dates
Finding Hope
Finding Joy
Loneliness and Abandonment
Spiritual Warfare
Will It Ever Get Better?

Highlights:

One hundred entries written over a span of seven years
Each entry is a transparent account of wrestling through a specific question, experience, or struggle related to grief
Entries may be read in chronological order or topically by using the included topical index
If you are grieving—read and be encouraged you are not alone
If you love someone who is grieving—read to better understand suffering and grief
If you love stories of faith triumphing in adversity—read and be blessed

What makes Sifted unique:

Individual entries written across a span of seven years provide the rare opportunity to journey alongside a grieving mother through the first seven years of grief.

Sifted can be read chronologically or topically. Both ways allow the reader to uniquely confront specific questions, emotions, and struggles of grief, and to observe through successive entries the progressive unfolding of greater understanding.

Sifted‘s topical index provides quick access to a wide variety of entries about specific experiences of grief, including many difficult days and dates: monthly and yearly anniversaries, missed milestones, first holidays, birthdays, family celebrations, and so on.

Through the raw, honest, and articulate entries contained in Sifted, grieving readers will discover they are not alone in their struggles, and be encouraged that there is hope, peace, and comfort sufficient to meet every sorrow already encountered, and each yet to come.