When we lose someone we love . . .
You need the comfort of God’s presence.
You need to know He is walking with you in your grief and pain.
Grief Walk
Experiencing God After the Loss of a Loved One
A touching, practical devotional for experiencing God’s presence and love in times of loss.
Widowed Walk
Experiencing God After the Loss of a Spouse
A grief devotional to help those who have lost spouses experience God’s comfort and love.
Broken Walk
Experiencing God After the Loss of a Child
Heartfelt devotions designed to bring comfort, hope, and healing to grieving parents & grandparents.
Soul Cry
Devotional Prayers for Wounded, Grieving, and Suffering Hearts
Devotional prayers which are grounded in the Bible and designed to connect with your soul.
“It’s okay. You’re strong. You’ll get through this.”
Chances are you’ve heard something like this. It might indeed be true, but it’s not particularly helpful.
When we lose someone we love, the people around us don’t know what to say. They end up saying what they’ve heard others say. They mean well, but clichés and platitudes do little for a grieving heart.
You need something more than this – far more.
You need to know that it’s okay to hurt, to be sad, and to grieve.
You need to know that you’re not crazy and that your grief is “normal.”
You need to know that you’re not alone in this.
You need to know that you will get through this, even though you will not be the same person you were before.
And most of all, you need the comfort of God’s presence. You need to experience His compassion and love. You need to know He is walking with you in your pain and grief.
And that’s what the God and Grief Series is all about.
Why I’m Writing This Series
We all experience loss. It invades. It rattles our hearts and shakes our souls. It hurts.
Amid our pain and grief, we look up. We wonder, “Where is God? Did this have to happen? Why?”
Loss invaded my life early. Sexual abuse, bullying, disappointments, failures, deaths, estrangements, and divorce riddled my childhood. I grew up feeling damaged, sad, and lonely. I was functionally orphaned by the time I was 15. I wondered if I was going to make it.
I said to myself, “If this is what life is like, I must find a way to handle the hits that come. Then, I must find a way to use the pain for good, or else what is this all for?”
In my simple teenage way, I prayed, “God, only you can do this. If you don’t, I’m history.”
I’ve been on a journey of healing ever since.
I wish I could say I’ve experienced less loss and pain since my teen years, but that is not the case. The losses kept coming. Some of them were deep and even debilitating. Over time, they piled up and threatened to crush my heart.
Even in my darkest moments, God was there, embracing me in my pain and whispering to my wounded heart. He kept me alive. He has led me through the valley of the shadow of death many times. He continues to bring healing to my injured soul, though never quite in the way I ask for or anticipate. And, true to His loving nature, He continues to take my losses and use them for good, in my life and in the lives of those around me.
God has certainly answered my simple teenage prayer. My adult life has been about helping hurting, wounded people (like me) heal and grow. Over the last three decades as a missionary, pastor, and hospice chaplain, I’ve had the honor of walking with tens of thousands of souls through the valley of grief. Dealing with loss, death, and grief has become my routine.
I spend my days working with hurting, grieving hearts – listening, sharing, writing, speaking, and coaching. My focus is simple: meeting grieving hearts where they are and walking with them there. As we do that together, I believe God speaks, comforts, and brings healing.
God meets us in our pain and embraces us. He journeys with us through the emotional upheaval, mental confusion, physical distress, spiritual questioning, and relational changes. Jesus has personally experienced more pain, suffering, and grief than we can fathom. He knows. He gets it. He is the best grief companion imaginable.
He walks with us in our stuff. That’s what the God and Grief Series is all about.
Each book is designed to be read one chapter a day. Consider it a grief devotional. Take your time. Open your heart. Be honest about your thoughts and emotions. Allow Jesus to meet you in each day’s reading.
And remember…
It’s okay to hurt.
It’s okay to be sad and to grieve.
You will get through this, but you will not be the same.
You are not alone. Far from it.
God is with you in your pain and grief. He loves you where you are, as you are.
If you’re willing, He will bring healing and growth to your broken heart. He will somehow use this loss for good in your life and in the lives of those you touch.
I’m honored to be with you on this sacred journey. Breathe deeply. Take your time. Read on…
ABOUT GARY
In addition to Grief Walk, Gary Roe is the author of the award-winning bestsellers Shattered: Surviving the Loss of a Child, Please Be Patient, I’m Grieving, Heartbroken: Healing from the Loss of a Spouse and Surviving the Holidays Without You. He is also the co-author (with New York Times Bestseller Cecil Murphey) of Not Quite Healed and Saying Goodbye. Gary has been featured on Focus on the Family and CBN, and has more than 700 grief-related articles in print. He is a popular speaker at a wide variety of venues. He currently serves as an author, speaker, grief specialist, and grief coach. Gary loves being a husband and father. He has seven adopted children. He enjoys swimming, hockey, corny jokes, and cool Hawaiian shirts. Gary and his wife Jen and family live in Texas.
Praise
Grief is a daily journey after loss. Gary Roe has captured the essence of this struggle and provided on-point encouragement for each day of the journey. Well done!
A griever’s journey can be painful, lonely and overwhelming. Grief Walk filters our feelings with faith, reminding us—we are not alone. God walks with us every step of the way.
Amid our pain and grief, we look up and ask, “Where is God?” The words “you need to know you are not alone in this” is what separates this book from so many. Pastor and Author Gary Roe has once again solidified his status as the “go-to” resource for people struggling with grief. Keen insight and practical approach are how Gary Roe consistently and compassionately touches on the subjects that people going through grief actually need to hear, like “It’s ok to grieve”. Grief Walk takes it to the next level by combining his knowledge as one of the top grief counselors in the world with his heart of a Pastor. A must-read for anyone going through the pain of grief.
Gary has done it again! Grief Walk hits on all the emotions I have heard people speak about during my time as a Chaplain and leading support groups. I believe that everyone who reads this book will be able to relate to the emotions and find comfort, affirmation, and hope. The way faith is incorporated with the grief journey is refreshing. I have not found material that speaks about the challenges of prayer, scripture reading, and church attendance during the grief journey as Grief Walk does. I will be using this book for future support groups as I know this is going to help people break through barriers and into spiritual freedom.
The grief journey is unique to everyone. Those who are Christians have a God that knows this personally. Jesus, when he walked around among us, experienced grief. He wept. In Grief Walk: Experiencing God After the Loss of a Loved One, Gary Roe uses God’s word to create daily readings where the griever walks with God. The tough questions and emotions are addressed head-on, allowing the reader to experience the Jesus, the Balm of Gilead, to make them whole again.
How do we live in this broken world where everything is shaking and becoming more unstable each day? You feel it don’t you? From the nightly news to social media, we live in a world that appears to be coming more unhinged. Author Gary Roe offers daily help as our souls cry out for comfort, perspective, and stability in this uncertain world. As Gary says, “in a world that is at war and falling apart, our souls need to vent in God’s direction.” He has prepared a resource that helps us daily for three months let our souls cry out to the Lord. Soul Cry offers daily prayers grounded in God’s truth to help us express our hearts’ desires to the Lord.
I count it one of my great privileges to know Gary Roe and to personally benefit from his ministry of comfort for the hurting and compassion for the grieving. In his numerous books and in his speaking ministry, Gary provides help for those suffering loss and tenderness for us whom this broken world has wounded.
Daily working through this treasure of support will enable followers of Jesus to keep their feet firmly planted in Him and in His stabilizing support. I highly endorse this three-month journey.
I have been moved, challenged, encouraged, and incredibly blessed by Soul Cry. When my words fail, and my prayers seem so understated, Gary’s honest insight and Biblical basis of each writing with relevant Scripture have carried my prayers in a deep, heartfelt manner. You will be blessed with these readings and will use this book again and again when facing life’s difficulties.
Gary Roe has responded to the Soul Cry of those who are grieving. Each chapter is loaded with ointment to soothe the aching of the grieving heart. This book is a must-read for both those who are grieving and those who provide bereavement ministries.
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Grief Walk
Experiencing God After the Loss of a Loved One
A touching, practical devotional for experiencing God’s presence and love in times of loss.
Widowed Walk
Experiencing God After the Loss of a Spouse
A grief devotional to help those who have lost spouses experience God’s comfort and love.
Broken Walk
Experiencing God After the Loss of a Child
Heartfelt devotions designed to bring comfort, hope, and healing to grieving parents & grandparents.
Soul Cry
Devotional Prayers for Wounded, Grieving, and Suffering Hearts
Devotional prayers which are grounded in the Bible and designed to connect with your soul.
