Empower memories with your faith. . .
and they will empower you with God’s love.
Romans 5:1-5
Grief’s Journey Into Light
About Our Online eBook
“Papaw’s Thoughts for Loss” is published to help you comfort children thru their initial encounters with death. These are the spiritual strategies of a Christian grandfather as he reflects upon the wisdom of his long deceased grandparents.
Spiritual battles have remained the same throughout time, so for centuries loving parents and grandparents have intuitively prepared children to battle doubts of God’s goodness during heartache.
“. . . of such is the kingdom of God.” . . . Luke 18:16
Once read by village scribes in stained parchments, these are ancient traditions, Biblical insights easily understood and interpreted with a loving heart by Christians in every generation.
Our book “I’m With Jesus” implements the thoughts presented on this website so they can be communicated to grieving children during casual read-aloud times.
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A Gift of Hope
When presented to families following the passing of a loved one, the editing and reading of the book becomes a family project during the initial stages of grief.
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Personalizing the words and pictures in their book with memories of loved ones in heaven helps these families share their thoughts about God and His purpose in life and death.
Empowering Memories . . . II Timothy 1:5
Just as these thumbnail images will enlarge with the click of a mouse, so our memories will empower us with an enlarged sense of God’s goodness.
Looking For Answers
Hurting children will always need guidance in finding answers to their awkward, unspoken questions about God and the pain of loss.
We may get through a healthy period of tears and grieving . . . but our childhood spirit of innocence aches with scars if we lose sight of God’s goodness through unanswered questions.
However, we learn and heal as we find answers.
I hope this web site can help you discover something new and wonderful about God’s goodness in spite of the pain of loss. Then you can comfort your children at this painful and frightening time of growing up.
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Seeing Jesus Through the Tears
The Empowering Memories exercise strengthens our spirit so we can guide a child with loving answers to their awkward questions.
It is designed to help focus our thoughts toward heaven in preparation to console a grieving child.
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Searching with the Eyes of Faith
Strategically focusing a few simple principles of your faith will enable you to comfort a child with your belief in God’s innate goodness.
Then like my Granddaddy, and his Grandpa before him, you can give a child a lifetime of consolation as you explore your faith together and find answers to those awkward, unspoken questions.
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You do not need to own a copy of the work book to beneficially go through this web site and its devotional exercises. This website is published as a stand-alone eBook.
Our prayer is that its contents will encourage every visitor to exercise your ministry gifts to console the grieving in your local and internet community. Please read the short word of caution before sharing our book or these thoughts, however.
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After spending some time on our website, you may enjoy partnering with us by sharing our book, or the website and its contents in your community.
Sharing your own thoughts for loss over coffee with a grieving friend, can gently nudge the door open to discuss your feelings about God during grief.
Just as a blue hyperlink navigates us across the pages of the web, I pray that our Empowering Memories exercise can help you direct your friend’s thoughts toward heaven where there will be no more sorrow.
If you are in a hurry looking for something specific to share with a friend, navigation tips are given on the home page. Spending a few minutes to read this page will orient you to our eBook/website and help make your visit a more enjoyable experience.
Please read our word of caution before sharing any of these thoughts, however.
Then little children were brought to Jesus for Him to place His hands on them and pray for them.
Support of this ministry comes from your prayerful purchase of our workbook as a gift to grieving families.
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