Karen Harmening

Sifted:

Diary of a Grieving Mother

The death of a child.
Bearing the unbearable.
A journey of faith.

Seventeen-year-old Sarah Harmening was killed while on a church mission trip.Through the pages of Sifted, you are invited to intimately journey alongside her mother as she wrestles through the excruciating questions, experiences, and emotions that accompany the death of a child.

With raw honesty, explore the depths of the valley of the shadow of death to reconcile shattering loss with faith in Jesus Christ. Witness the unexpectedly sweet mingling of sorrow with hope and peace. And discover, deep in the shadowed valley, a costly joy rendered by sorrow so pure and precious that it is “inexpressible and full of glory.” 

Explore topics such as:

  • Understanding Grief
  • Hard Questions Like “What If?” and “Why?”
  • Surviving the Many Hard Days and Dates
  • Finding Hope
  • Finding Joy
  • Loneliness and Abandonment
  • Spiritual Warfare
  • Will It Ever Get Better?

Highlights:

  • Sifted contains one hundred entries written over a span of seven years.
  • Each entry is a transparent account of encountering and wrestling through a specific question, experience or struggle related to grief.
  • Entries may be read in chronological order or topically by using the included topical index.
  • Read and be encouraged you are not alone.
Sifted Diary of a grievingmother ebook child loss grief

What makes Sifted unique:

Sifted includes individual entries written across a span of seven years, providing the rare opportunity to journey alongside a grieving mother through the first seven years of grief.

Sifted can be read chronologically or topically. Both ways allow the reader to uniquely confront specific questions, emotions, and struggles of grief, and to observe through successive entries the progressive unfolding of greater understanding.

Sifted‘s topical index provides quick access to a wide variety of entries about specific experiences of grief, including many difficult days and dates: monthly and yearly anniversaries, various missed milestones, first holidays, birthdays, family celebrations, and so on.

Through the raw, honest, and articulate entries contained in Sifted, grieving readers will discover they are not alone in their struggles, and be encouraged that there is hope, peace, and comfort sufficient to meet every sorrow already encountered, and each yet to come.

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