Quiet Assurance: Meditations on Peace for the Grieving Heart - Paperback

God is holding your grief in his hands.Where is God when pain lingers and grief wearies our souls? Grief can dismantle a life and unsettle our faith. In the shrouded corridors of sorrow, we stumble about, desperate for the presence and nearness of God, grasping instead only cobweb and shadow. If you have wondered if you are forgotten or if God hears your cries for help, allow Quiet Assurance to draw you to hope and peace. Walking through the Psalms, this thirty-day devotional will remind you that when the world goes to war against our fragility and our fatigue, God embraces our weakness, pain, and suffering as a known commodity.Regardless of what life throws your way, you can rest in the knowledge that God is well-versed in our frailty, and does not need our prayers whitewashed or our pain minimized. Quiet Assurance will: Introduce you to the spiritual practice of lamentIllustrate God's compassion for the broken heartInvite you to bring your honest, messy pain to GodWhen God feels more absent than present, allow the psalter of Scripture to remind you of Immanuel: God with us