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Feeling My Way Through the Midlands: Poetic Perspectives on Life After Loss
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ISBN13: 9798308559450
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 19 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 19 2025
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Are you lost in an emotional middle ground after the loss of a loved one? You're not alone. Narrating a widower's grief journey, Feeling My Way Through the Midlands is more than simply a story of the loss of a spouse. It movingly articulates and validates the turbulent emotions and lessons learned in the grieving, while renewing faith and hope for life after loss. At age forty-one, Chris Martin's life changed forever when he suddenly lost his wife of twenty years to cancer. With refreshing vulnerability and authenticity, this book traces his story of loss and his emotions along the often-confusing road of grief shared through a series of reflective insights, interwoven with a combination of narrative and more than ninety heartfelt poems. It grapples with the difficult parts of the grief journey:
- Questions
- Fog
- Loneliness
- Guilt
- Emptiness
- Pain
- Bitterness
- Regrets
- Lamenting
- Powerlessness
- And deep sorrow
At the same time, it keeps sight of an eternal perspective based in faith in God, reflecting on legacy, gratitude, contentment, and grieving with hope in the midst of it all. Part grief memoir, part grief poetry book, and part guidebook for grievers, Feeling My Way Through the Midlands is a supremely relatable walk through the aftermath of the loss of a loved one, helping those experiencing grief share, embrace, and express their own emotions as part of their grieving process while moving forward toward healing one day at a time. A balance of raw emotion, encouragement to keep going, and faith, hope, and wisdom for the road ahead, this book is a valuable companion on the grief journey for any griever, but especially for the grieving widower or widow. From reader reviews: Chris takes us into the raw and the real of a life well-lived but gone too soon...This [is] a captivating story that will transform your healing journey. If you are experiencing times of grief where you don't know what to say, let Chris Martin speak for you. His words are touching, warm, comforting, and from a place of understanding. If you are sitting with a sympathy card in front of you, and you don't know what to say, send a copy of this book instead. The recipient will be eternally grateful on those nights where grief is their only companion. ...engaging and heartfelt, drawing you in with his candor and vulnerability...this book will be a blessing to many that have endured the loss of a loved one. This book was truly heartfelt and beautiful, and I absolutely loved it! ...manages to encapsulate the myriad of experiences around profound love and loss with such grace and memorability...and gently offers the wisdom and healing he has gleaned from his journey with the Lord through unexpected loss. No matter your stage of life, I believe this beautiful book will bless you deeply.
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