TY  - BOOK
AU  - McEntyre,Marilyn Chandler
TI  - A long letting go: meditations on losing someone you love 
SN  - 9780802873101
AV  - BV4910.9 .M34 2015
U1  - 242/.4 23
KW  - Caregivers
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Meditations
KW  - Loss (Psychology)
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Death
KW  - Bereavement
KW  - fast
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -