Sorrow And Solace

Author : Philip Bachelor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351841689

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Sorrow and Solace by Philip Bachelor Pdf

Sorrow and Solace focuses on the importance of cemeteries in the lives of everyday mourners, and ways in which our bereaved give meaning to and draw value from their commemorative activities. The death of someone dear to us is among the most momentous life event that we experience. In many societies, visiting the grave or memorial is a common behavioural response to bereavement. Memorial sites provide vital connections to our deceased loved ones with whom we wish to maintain ongoing social bonds, and cemeteries are crucial places of deep healing and growth. Millions of visits are made to cemeteries every day, but the extent of this activity and its value to those who mourn - the topics of this volume - have long remained largely unrecognised. Large urban memorial parks are hives of activity for recently bereaved persons, and are among the most visited places in Western communities. Some cemeteries, hosting millions of annual visits, are more popular than many major tourist attractions. Cemetery visitation is a high-participatory, value-laden, expressive activity, and a most significant observable behaviour of the recently bereaved. This work will be invaluable to those seeking a scholarly understanding of bereavement, mourning, and commemoration. Written principally for professionals with a tertiary educational interest in related fields, such as grief educators, nurses, palliative carers, and social workers, it is also an important resource for the further education of other carers and service providers, including psychologists, physicians, counsellors, clergy, funeral directors, cemetery administrators, and monumental masons. The book is also a significant contribution to the field of social anthropology.

Author : Bô Yin Râ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0915034050

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The Book on Solace by Bô Yin Râ Pdf

This book considers the experience of grief, bereavement, and despair from the perspective of our timeless life. While not denying the reality of suffering and anguish in the sphere of mortal life, the book explains why grief and sorrow have no basis for existence in the dimension of the Spirit's light

Author : Kathleen Dean Moore
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0834823187

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Wild Comfort by Kathleen Dean Moore Pdf

In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in her time of pain. This book is the record of her experiences. It’s a stunning collection of carefully observed accounts of her life—tracking otters on the beach, cooking breakfast in the desert, canoeing in a snow squall, wading among migrating salmon in the dark—but it is also a profound meditation on the healing power of nature. To learn more about the author, visit her website at www.riverwalking.com.

Author : Thomas WALKINGTON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1620
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020168446

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Rabboni; Mary Magdalen's teares of sorrow, solace ... [a sermon on John xx. 16] preached at S. Paul's Crosse, after the rehearsall, and newly reuised and enlarged by Thomas WALKINGTON Pdf

Author : Benjamin Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0991539737

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Seasons of Solace by Benjamin Allen Pdf

Like seeing one's reflection on a still pond, Seasons of Solace: Reflections on Grief is a reflection of great loss resting upon nature's gentle beauty. Our greatest desire is that you will see your reflection in our reflections. Words on a page can never truly describe the emptiness found when someone we love slips beyond our reach. Yet, it is our hope that these words, born out of loss, can be a bridge to solace in your seasons of sorrow. May our hearts meet within these pages and find healing on our common path. May in our shared loss we find our shared life. May in our aloneness we discover our tears fall on the same earth and flow into the same ocean. And through these reflections may our great loss bring us into an even greater love. When we look into the still pond, into our own reflection, we can see others on the water's edge and know our solitary sorrow is not reflection our aloneness, but of our shared love. Perhaps you find here the comfort of experiencing that you are not alone. Such great loss, such great love, lives within us all. We invite you to join us within these pages in a place of healing in our seasons of solace.

Author : Esther Adler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798709928732

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Poems of Sorrow, Solace, and Spirituality by Esther Adler Pdf

Beloved Jewish educator Esther Adler, brings a poet's eye to nearly a century of Jewish life, spanning her youth in Nazi Germany, her young adulthood in British Mandate Palestine, and her many decades in the United States. With a clear and unfailing voice, she commits herself to bear witness both to the destruction of European Jewry and to its rebirth in the 21st century. Her poems are a call to conscience, a call to inner peace, and a call to joy. Through the lens of Jewish learning, she invites readers to share in the sources that inspire her resilience. Reviews: "In Esther Adler's vivid poems, memories of loss, exile, and dislocation are transformed into injunctions to remember and transcend. Collected on the occasion of the poet's 97th birthday, the reader learns details of a long life well lived and discovers the consolations that come from work and love for Israel, family, Judaism, languages, and words. Full with allusions to Jewish texts and practices, the poems acknowledge every form of grief only to soar into affirmations of life, "sounds of solitary sorrow succumb to ... Sounds of serenity and succor." The reader, like every person whose life has been touched by Esther Adler's indomitable spirit or charmed by the spell of her storytelling, will feel grateful for her influence." Lori Lefkovitz, Ruderman Professor of Jewish Studies, Northeastern University About the author: Born in Breslau, Germany, now Wrocław, Poland, Adler grew up in an orthodox family. She attended Jewish Day school and studied modern Hebrew after school at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau. After witnessing Kristallnacht, she left her family for Palestine as part of Youth Aliyah in 1938, then rejoined her family in the United States in 1947. Her autobiographical novel, Best Friends: A Bond that Survived Hitler, is available in both English and German language editions. This is her second volume of poetry.

Author : David Whyte
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786897640

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Consolations by David Whyte Pdf

In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for meaning. Beginning with 'Alone' and closing with 'Withdrawal', each piece in this life-affirming book is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling overwhelmed and the desire to run away from it all. Through this lens, procrastination may be a necessary ripening; hiding an act of freedom; and shyness something that accompanies the first stage of revelation. Consolations invites readers into a poetic and thoughtful consideration of words whose meaning and interpretation influence the paths we choose and the way we traverse them throughout our lives.

Author : Siobhan Dowd
Publisher : David Fickling Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780375893650

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Solace of the Road by Siobhan Dowd Pdf

Holly’s story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her. Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school, and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. She’s not Holly anymore, she’s Solace: the girl with the slinkster walk and the supersharp talk. She’s older, more confident—the kind of girl who can walk right out of her humdrum life, hitch to Ireland, and find her mum. The kind of girl who can face the world head-on. So begins a bittersweet and sometimes hilarious journey as Solace swaggers and Holly tiptoes across England and through memory, discovering her true self and unlocking the secrets of her past.

Author : Bo Yin Ra
Publisher : New Dawn Press
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 812073050X

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The Book on Solace by Bo Yin Ra Pdf

I here intend to show you how one may come to find such solace -- within one's inner-most self -- and then shall have no further need to be consoled by others. No consolation you receive from others can ever free you from the shackles of your grief -- unless such comfort teaches you how you may break those chains yourself. And how that inner art is learned, and put to use, the present work will teach you. Solace is of value only as a counter-force: an energy that lends you strength to overcome the hostile force of grief. No grief is everlasting, and you alone have power to prolong its life beyond its given span. If you would find enduring solace in yourself you must not blindly delve into your grief, nor constantly reopen wounds that are about to heal. It is above all else essential that your thoughts shall not continuously dwell upon and cleave to what you suffer.

Author : Jan Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735161209

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The Cure for Sorrow by Jan Richardson Pdf

When Jan Richardson unexpectedly lost her husband and creative partner, the singer/songwriter Garrison Doles, she did what she had long known how to do: she wrote blessings. These were no sugar-coated blessings. They minimized none of the pain and bewilderment that came in the wake of a wrenching death. With these blessings, Jan entered, instead, into the depths of the shock, anger, and sorrow. From those depths, she has brought forth words that, with heartbreaking honesty, offer surprising comfort and stunning grace. Those who know loss will find kinship among these pages. In these blessings that move through the anguish of rending into the unexpected shelters of solace and hope, there shimmers a light that helps us see we do not walk alone. From her own path of grief, Jan offers a luminous, unforgettable gift that invites us to know the tenacity of hope and to recognize the presence of love that, as she writes, is "sorrow's most lasting cure."

Author : Gretel Ehrlich
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781504042888

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The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich Pdf

These transcendent, lyrical essays on the West announced Gretel Ehrlich as a major American writer—“Wyoming has found its Whitman” (Annie Dillard). Poet and filmmaker Gretel Ehrlich went to Wyoming in 1975 to make the first in a series of documentaries when her partner died. Ehrlich stayed on and found she couldn’t leave. The Solace of Open Spaces is a chronicle of her first years on “the planet of Wyoming,” a personal journey into a place, a feeling, and a way of life. Ehrlich captures both the otherworldly beauty and cruelty of the natural forces—the harsh wind, bitter cold, and swiftly changing seasons—in the remote reaches of the American West. She brings depth, tenderness, and humor to her portraits of the peculiar souls who also call it home: hermits and ranchers, rodeo cowboys and schoolteachers, dreamers and realists. Together, these essays form an evocative and vibrant tribute to the life Ehrlich chose and the geography she loves. Originally written as journal entries addressed to a friend, The Solace of Open Spaces is raw, meditative, electrifying, and uncommonly wise. In prose “as expansive as a Wyoming vista, as charged as a bolt of prairie lightning,” Ehrlich explores the magical interplay between our interior lives and the world around us (Newsday).

Author : Belinda McKeon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451614251

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Solace by Belinda McKeon Pdf

Belinda McKeon’s Solace is an extraordinarily accomplished first novel—a story of a father and son thrown together by tragedy; one clinging to the old country and one plunging into the new. Set in an Ireland that catapulted into wealth at the end of the twentieth century and then suffered a swift economic decline, this is a novel about the conflicting values of the old and young generations and the stubborn, heartbreaking habits that mute the language of love. Tom and Mark Casey are a father and son on a collision course, two men who have always struggled to be at ease with each other. Tom is a farmer in the Irish midlands, the descendant of men who have farmed the same land for generations. Mark, his only son, is a doctoral student in Dublin, writing his dissertation on the nineteenth-century novelist Maria Edgeworth, who spent her life on her family’s estate, not far from the Casey farm. To his father, who needs help baling the hay and ploughing the fields, Mark’s academic pursuit is not man’s work at all, the occupation of a schoolboy. Mark’s mother negotiates a fragile peace. Then, at a party in Dublin, Mark meets Joanne Lynch, a lawyer in training whom he finds irresistible. She also happens to be the daughter of a man who once spectacularly wronged Mark’s father, and whose betrayal Tom has remembered every single day for twenty years. After the lightning strike of devastating loss, Tom and Mark are left with grief neither can share or fully acknowledge. Not even the magnitude of their mutual loss can alter the habit of silence. Solace is a beautiful and moving novel by one of the most exciting new writers to emerge from Ireland.

Author : Haven Kimmel
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385507301

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The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel Pdf

Using small-town life as a springboard to explore the loftiest of ideas, Haven Kimmel’s irresistibly smart and generous first novel is at once a romance and a haunting meditation on grief and faith. Langston Braverman returns to Haddington, Indiana (pop. 3,062) after walking out on an academic career that has equipped her for little but lording it over other people. Amos Townsend is trying to minister to a congregation that would prefer simple affirmations to his esoteric brand of theology. What draws these difficult—if not impossible—people together are two wounded little girls who call themselves Immaculata and Epiphany. They are the daughters of Langston’s childhood friend and the witnesses to her murder. And their need for love is so urgent that neither Langston nor Amos can resist it, though they do their best to resist each other. Deftly walking the tightrope between tragedy and comedy, The Solace of Leaving Early is a joyous story about finding one’s better self through accepting the shortcomings of others.

Author : Gustav Mahler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Song cycles
ISBN : UCSD:31822004201216

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Solace in sorrow by Gustav Mahler Pdf

Author : Albert N. Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1936760266

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Grieving, Hope and Solace by Albert N. Martin Pdf

Here is a tender blending of memoir and theology, a joining of heart and mind, a sober yet joyful consideration of Scripture in the face of one of life's deepest and most grievous trials. What exactly happens to those who die as Christians? What do they immediately experience? What is their existence like right now? What will happen to them when Christ returns to earth? These questions can be especially acute for grieving loved ones who remain. What comfort and assurance does Scripture offer you? What can you truly know and be confident of? These are the questions and concerns that faced Pastor Albert N. Martin following the death of his wife of nearly 50 years. He knew that, if he were to grieve in a way that glorified God, he needed to know the answers to those questions, as clearly as possible, directly from Scripture. This book is the product of his grief, his tears, his travails, his prayers, and his concentrated study of God's Word. A beloved pastor and widely respected preacher for half a century, Albert Martin handles Scripture with the greatest of skill, care, wisdom, and respect. In this book, you will learn what God tells us with regard to the burning questions that so often accompany the death of a loved one in Christ. There is comfort for the grief. There are answers to the questions. The Bible does offer hope, solace, healing, and confidence. Pastor Albert Martin has been there. Let him share with you the deep comfort, encouragement, and joy that he found, through Scripture, in the midst of his grieving.