Four Corners of Grace: When suicide takes someone you love
Description:
A loved one's suicide turns normal life (if there is such a thing) into choppy and deeply uncomfortable space for everyone who must deal with the aftermath. The word "nightmare" describes the situation well. I know the feeling. The memory remains all too vivid of the call to tell my wife and me that our lifelong friend Teri had taken her own life. The words didn't seem real. Time slowed. Every breath felt forced. Hard. Painful. The suffocating feeling stayed with us, just as it does with anyone who loses a loved one to suicide. If that describes you, Four Corners of Grace will help you breathe again without it hurting so much. To possibly fall asleep for a while tonight. Or maybe to just feel a moment of peace that loosens the knot in your stomach. This book doesn't try to solve our country's suicide epidemic, nor does it attempt to shortcut the grieving needed in order to fully heal. It will - unapologetically, yet compassionately - walk toward and embrace the specific aches and anguishes suicide produces. Along the way, readers discover that two paths exist: Give in to endless despair or go on a journey to find life-giving grace - right now, when it's needed most.