When You Lose Someone You Love: Comfort for Those Who Grieve

            There is nothing more devastating than the death of a loved one. And whether it comes suddenly and unexpectedly, or at the end of a long and painful illness, every death is experienced anew, a shocking loss that takes our breath away and leaves us disoriented and lost.

            Grief is mysterious, misunderstood, and experienced differently from individual to individual, yet there are certain universal elements. In this compassionate epistolary handbook on grief, a pastor offers comfort and understanding to a man suffering a profound loss, showing grief as a healthy process that God can use to mend broken hearts.

            Revised and updated, this twentieth-anniversary edition features prayers and scripture meditation, as well as a new introduction and epilogue. Simple, profound, personal, compassionate … When You Lose Someone You Love tenderly walks the grief-stricken through sorrow to peace and, eventually, renewed joy.

Richard Exley is the author of twenty-nine books. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines, including Leadership Journal, Charisma, Ministries Today, and New Man. He has served as senior pastor of churches in Colorado and Oklahoma, hosted several popular radio programs, including the nationally syndicated Straight from the Heart, and has appeared on the 700 Club, Richard Roberts Live, and a host of other local television and radio programs. Richard and his wife, Brenda Starr, spend their time in a secluded cabin overlooking picturesque Beaver Lake in Northwest Arkansas.