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A Grace Disguised
Author(s): Jerry L. Sittser
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780310266143
Edition: Revised
ISBN: 0310266149
Label: Zondervan Publishing Company
Language(s): English Original LanguageEnglish UnknownEnglish Published
List Price: $12.99
Manufacturer: Zondervan Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Product Group: Book
Address: 2005-01
Publisher: Zondervan Publishing Company
Reading Level: Young Adult
Studio: Zondervan Publishing Company
Editorial Reviews
Product Description:
A Gracer Disguised plumbs the depth of our sorrows, whether due to illness, divorce, or the loss of someone we love. The circumstances are not important, says the author; what we do with those circumstances is.
Customer Reviews Average rating - 5.0
Rating - 5 Date: 2009-01-02
Content: ...when I received the phone call. I had stayed home from church with a sore heel when I picked up my phone to see my best friend was calling. It wasn't her though, it was someone else--her mother, calling to tell me that their dear girl was taken from us in a horrible accident. I had to break the news to one of her best friends, my daughter. The grief had our whole county reeling.
After the dust settled, the funeral and memorials done, the semester over, I had time at the bookstore to comb through all the books on grief. Of course I looked over Lewis and the other major Christian writers, but they weren't of much use to myself and my pain. Lewis--God bless him--lost a wife to cancer after she had a full life. Our girl was 11.
Sittser knows grief. He knows sudden, horrible, irrevocable death; trauma, tragedy and loss. Loss with a capital L. He lost his wife, his four-year-old daughter and his mother before his eyes during a drunk driving accident. As a well-respected Fuller seminarian, he was encouraged by his friends to write down his observation and addressed the concept and effects of catastrophic loss a full three years after the accident.
Now that I have said why this book was relative to me, let me tell you why it's relative to you and everyone you know: he makes one thing firm--loss is loss, and cannot be qualified as more or less. He does not feel that his loss was greater than anyone else's, for all loss is relative to the person who is doing the losing, whether that someone's a parent, a unemployed mom, or a father trying to cope with his children after divorce. He clearly states that losing a job, for instance, is a loss. Rape is a loss. Divorce is a loss. Death constitutes a loss. Loss is loss is loss. This book adroitly and honestly discusses them all, his experience with grief in really honest detail. I'd like to point out here that this particular edition is the tenth anniversary, as well, and he covers the lives of himself and his children in the intervening years and would be a better buy that the original for it's epilogue.
And before you finish reading this, can I offer some advice? If you're shopping for a friend that has just lost someone, give them a considerable amount of time, and then give them this book. For goodness sakes, don't bring over a copy of 90 Minutes in Heaven, (my friends had two by the end of the second day) especially to a grieving parent. Although that is an especially good book about suffering, his life went on. Our girl's didn't.
Summary: It was a most beautiful October day...
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-12-27
Content: This book was very helpful for me and family members when we lost a loved one unexpectedly. Mr. Sitter expressed a lot of what we were feeling in a very understanding and real way.
Summary: Honest
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-12-22
Content: I love this book. It's a great book for any person who has lost a loved one. I just lost my mother. This book has helped me alot. I hightly recommend it.
Summary: Excelent book
Rating - 2 Date: 2008-11-23
Content: The ideas presented were very nice, but I felt this book moved a little slow and was, at times, very repetitive.
Summary: A little slow
Rating - 5 Date: 2008-10-16
Content: I lost my husband of 31 years almost 2 years ago now to a GBM; brain tumor. I received many books from people, but this book by Jerry Sittser was the one that truly helped me. I didn't read it right away; reading was difficult for me at the beginning as I couldn't really focus.
But when I picked this book up and started it, I just kept on reading. Here was a man who understands catastrophic loss; his was the death of family members, but he also talks about other types of loss one encounters in life. He helped me realize that I need to confront my loss and face it head on--not to run away from it and push it away. As I have faced my grief, the Lord is helping me travel from the darkness to the Light. I have given this book to other widows and to those who have lost their jobs. I am so thankful that Jerry has written this without the platitudes that we hear from people who don't know what to say. There is hope even when we have lost someone we loved deeply; he reminds us that God still walks with us daily on this journey of life. Thank you Jerry for writing this book.
Summary: This book was such a help
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