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    Overcoming Grief: Comforting Others with the Comfort We Have Received
    Overcoming Grief: Comforting Others with the Comfort We Have Received
    Overcoming Grief: Comforting Others with the Comfort We Have Received
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    Overcoming Grief: Comforting Others with the Comfort We Have Received

    By David Jeffers

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    This book is about fourteen women, some who will remain anonymous. Each has lost a child, either through early death, miscarriage, or abortion. Although these women are all from one church, these testimonies could come from many women across America. The central theme is not the loss of a child, but how God’s grace and mercy brought comfort and healing to each mother. It is their prayer that those who have experienced such loss, including all the family members, will be comforted by the comfort they have received.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Jeffers
    Release dateMay 18, 2016
    ISBN9781530399994
    Overcoming Grief: Comforting Others with the Comfort We Have Received
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    David Jeffers

    Best-selling author Dave Jeffers is a Sunday School Teacher, Bible student, and lay preacher. Dave graduated magna cum laude from Liberty University with a bachelors degree in religion. Dave received cum laude honors at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary with a M.A. in Theological Studies. Dave is a 1975 graduate of Analy High School in Sebastopol, CA. Dave has taught and preached the word of God at churches in Germany and Belgium, and for the last 13 years at Midway Baptist Church in Gulf Breeze, FL. Dave is a retired Army Master Sergeant and his 22 years of active duty not only allowed him to travel the world, but to also adopt a worldview based biblical principles and life experiences. Dave's love for Christ, politics, and his plain spokenness allow him to cut through all the rancor and confusion found in the debate surrounding many of today's "hot-button" issues. Dave and his wife Karen love living in NW Florida, doting over their grandson Benjamin, their two daughters Becky and Tiffany, and Tiffany's husband Ben. Dave will tell you that the problems facing America today cannot be fixed through economics or politics, because our problems are not economic or political. They are spiritual and without a revival coming to America our nation will not rediscover its national virtue and return to what the Founding Fathers had envisioned when constructing our Constitution.

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      Overcoming Grief - David Jeffers

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      OVERCOMING GRIEF

      Comforting Others with the Comfort We Have Received

      David Jeffers

      ~~~~~

      Table of Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Prologue: Diane’s Final Thoughts

      Chapter 1: A Purpose In Our Pain

      Chapter 2: Finding A Love I Can Never Lose

      Chapter 3: God Knew Best

      Chapter 4: A Trophy of Grace

      Chapter 5: Choosing To Love Knowing

      Chapter 6: A Gift of Grace

      Chapter 7: Like Being on Auto-Pilot

      Chapter 8: I’m Not Afraid

      Chapter 9: Feeling Really Numb

      Chapter 10: No Better Place

      Chapter 11: Grace Greater Than Pain

      Chapter 12: Not Alone In My Guilt

      Chapter 13: Regretful Choices

      Chapter 14: Forgiving What Should Be Unforgivable

      Afterword

      Epilogue

      About the Author

      ~~~~~

      Foreword

      Life is a journey filled with ups and downs, all of it designed to conform us to the image of His will. Jesus said we would have trials, and one of the greatest is the loss of a loved one. This book tells the story of women who have journeyed through the path of loss and have found hope and healing in Jesus Christ.

      Through reading their story, I was lead to relive my own journey through the path of loss. Their misery, filtered through the grace of God, has become a ministry in my life. To God be the glory for His love, wisdom, and healing.

      I remember the call I received at 2:30 am on July 2, 1993. My brother said, Mama has suffered a heart attack. My mind reeled trying to grasp that my healthy 68 year-old mom could have had a heart attack. Five months pregnant with my fourth child, my husband and I loaded our children in the van and journeyed six hours to my childhood home. When we arrived, I will never forget the words my dad spoke when he met me on the front lawn. She's gone.

      My father's words have played over and over in my mind through the years. By the grace of God and the knowledge of His Word, I have come to accept that her life's purpose had been completed, and that though I grieve her absence terribly, I would see her again.

      The process of grieving is complex for it takes on different personalities for different people. Yet, for the Christian, sorrow reveals more about who we are in Christ than any other trial.

      When a loved one dies we want to question Why? But, through it all we begin to grasp the reality of we sorrow not as those who have no hope.

      As we journey through this path of loss we stop asking why and focus on how. How do we move forward among the living? Over time, the Lord enables us to realize that God's purpose for their earthly life had been completed. No one in Christ is ever lost.

      Connected to death are love, life, and experience. We love the one who dies. Their life is connected to ours through experiences with them. When they are gone, we lose for a time the physical touch of their life and love, but we gain the grace of God to be touched with the feelings of other's losses.

      That is how God uses the deepest hurts in our lives to bring about compassion and understanding to help others in their times of need.

      Rebekah Brunet

      Midway Baptist Church

      Gulf Breeze, Florida

      ~~~~~

      Introduction

      Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also abounds through Christ. (2 Corinthians 1:3-5)

      My name is on this book, but I am not the author; God is. I am not even the compiler. In a few minutes, you’re going to meet a sweet woman of Jesus who gathered the testimonies in this book, including hers.

      When Diane Padgett approached me about this project, my spirit immediately leapt with anticipation and expectation. Within a few days, God had already given me the title and subtitle: Overcoming Grief: Comforting Others with the Comfort We Have Received. It is based on the Scripture passage above.

      This book contains fourteen testimonies from women in our church, some who will remain anonymous. However, this book could be written about any church across America.

      The location is not important, and to some extent the women in this book are not center stage. The author of this book, God our Heavenly Father, is the main character. God’s love and grace in these women’s lives are the central theme. All of these women have one thing in common: they all lost children either through death after birth, miscarriage, or abortion.

      The glue that kept these women’s lives together was and is God’s amazing grace. My job was to edit and organize all the testimonies into a readable book. It has changed my life forever.

      I knew only of three of the stories; Diane, Tonja Talcott, and my wife Karen. I know each of the women who did not remain anonymous. I admire them even more today than before I began this journey.

      I pray you will have the same experience. You will begin your journey by reading the letter Diane wrote to me after she had finished this project. I believe her ending note makes the perfect prologue to begin your journey.

      May the Lord Jesus Christ truly bless you along the way.

      Dave Jeffers

      ~~~~~

      Prologue: Diane’s Final Thoughts

      May 1, 2015

      Dear Dave,

      The idea for a book for our church family took root in my mind last year when Wendy Boling shared her story about her son with Roya and me. Wendy’s son, Jason Bradley, was born in 1984 and lived about one and a half months, but the light of his short life served as a picture of the grace of God in 2014.

      I knew that there were others in our church family who had lost a child, and I believed that each one of them had a story of the grace of God. We are told that as children of the Living God we are to sorrow not, even as others which have no hope (I Thessalonians 4:13), but when the storm comes and our lives are shattered, we just cannot see how to sorrow with hope.

      In every life the storms will come, and I believe that it is important for others, whether they are believers or not, to see that God’s comforting grace is real and that He is the God of all comfort (II Corinthians 1:3).

      Sorrow over the death of a child has many faces. When I began to gather the stories for the book, I realized that there were women who had lost a child through a miscarriage and those who had lost a child as a result of abortion so I sought them out as well. I also asked women who were never able to have a child if they would like to participate and share their testimonies.

      Your Karen was the only one who wanted to be interviewed, but as time went by, the majority of those who wanted to write their story found that they were having difficulty putting their thoughts on paper and they asked if I could interview them. I never imagined the journey that I would embark on when I started interviewing these precious ladies.

      There have been a lot of tears shed by the ladies and me during the interviews. It was impossible not to be touched by the cries of each heart, but it was also impossible not to be blessed by the stories of the grace of God in each life.

      One lady told me that this was the first time that she had talked about the death of her child. Another said that no one had ever asked her how she felt about her abortion. One said that she never knew that she would see her children that she lost through miscarriage in Heaven. A couple of the women said that they did not think that they had much to share with

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