A meditations on losing someone you love McEntyre, Marilyn Chandler 1949- creator text Meditations. Meditations. miu 2015 monographic eng

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xi, 123 pages ; 22 cm This beautiful volume of reflections by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre is for family members and friends who are doing the life-changing work of accompanying someone on the final stretch of his or her journey. In quiet counterpoint to our hurried lives, A Long Letting Go invites caregivers to slow down for reflection and prayer as they prepare to say good-bye to a beloved friend or family member and grieve that loss. Based on McEntyre's personal and professional experience with the dying, these gentle meditations -- each consisting of a short opening quote, a reflection, and a prayer -- offer comfort, direction, hope, and respite to caregivers during a difficult season of their lives. Preface: The Care We're Called to -- Accompanying -- Setting the House in Order -- Facing Fear -- The Long Letting Go -- A Generous Dying -- A Good Death -- Things of the Spirit -- Hoping Against -- Things Take Time -- Untimely, Unseemly -- Walking the Valley -- Confession -- Blessing -- In a Place Apart -- Readiness -- Release -- Like a Seed -- Consent and Consolation -- Witnessing: Stories of Letting Go -- Mourning -- In It Together -- Gone -- Our Common Lot -- Permission -- Immortal, Inexplicable -- Grief That Keeps Going -- Comfort -- Those Who Mourn -- Like a Leaf -- A Season of Separation -- Words For Keeping Watch -- A Breath Prayer -- One-Line Prayers -- Vigil Affirmations -- The Seventh Week: A Vigil -- A Litany for the Living -- Permissions. Marilyn McEntyre. Caregivers Religious life Meditations Loss (Psychology) Religious aspects Christianity Meditations Death Religious aspects Christianity Meditations Bereavement Meditations Bereavement Caregivers Religious life Death Religious aspects Christianity Loss (Psychology) Religious aspects Christianity BV4910.9 .M34 2015 242/.4 9780802873101 0802873103 2015009845 DLC 150311 20241025054440.0 ocn905089516 eng