Comfort for Times of Loss

Comfort for Times of Loss gathers Bible readings, prayers and Our Daily Bread reflections for people living through bereavement. Its starting point is not a timetable for recovering from grief, but the promise that “the Lord is close to the broken-hearted”. There's room for tears, anger, disorientation and the complicated mixture of sorrow and faith that can follow a death. 

Jesus’ own grief and anguish are part of the picture. So too are the Christian promises that death has been defeated, that those who die in Christ are with Him, and that the future God has promised will finally be free from death, mourning and pain. Along the way, the booklet considers God’s compassion, the sustaining presence of other people and the possibility of continuing to trust when loss has altered almost everything else.

This resource includes:

• Bible passages for times of bereavement
• Our Daily Bread reflections written from within experiences of grief
• prayers for moments when words are difficult
• Scripture on God’s presence, compassion and the defeat of death
• practical help for leaning on God and other people through heartache