Grace Disguised : How the Soul Grows Through Loss

by Jerry Sittser

• ISBN13: 9780310258957
• ISBN10: 0310258952
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780310319443
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780310363590, 9780310219316
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Zondervan

Summary

An expanded edition of this classic book on grief and loss-with a new preface and epilogueLoss came suddenly for Jerry Sittser. In an instant, a tragic car accident claimed three generations of his family: his mother, his wife, and his young daughter. While most of us will not experience such a catastrophic loss in our lifetime, all of us will taste it. And we can, if we choose, know as well the grace that transforms it.A Grace Disguised plumbs the depths of sorrow, whether due to illness, divorce, or the loss of someone we love. The circumstances are not important; what we do with those circumstances is. In coming to the end of ourselves, we can come to the beginning of a new life-one marked by spiritual depth, joy, compassion, and a deeper appreciation of simple blessings.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Expanded Edition	13	(4)
Preface to the First Edition	17	(6)
The End and the Beginning	23	(7)
Whose Loss Is Worse?	30	(9)
Darkness Closes In	39	(14)
The Silent Scream of Pain	53	(12)
Sailing on a Sea of Nothingness	65	(15)
The Amputation of the Familiar Self	80	(12)
A Sudden Halt to Business As Usual	92	(15)
The Terror of Randomness	107	(13)
Why Not Me?	120	(11)
Forgive and Remember	131	(17)
The Absence of God	148	(14)
Life Has the Final Word	162	(8)
A Community of Brokenness	170	(16)
The Cloud of Witnesses	186	(8)
Heritage in a Graveyard	194	(8)
Epilogue	202	(11)
Notes	213	(2)
Discussion Questions	215