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    Of Death and Grief: Poems for Healing and Renewal
    Of Death and Grief: Poems for Healing and Renewal
    Of Death and Grief: Poems for Healing and Renewal
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    Of Death and Grief: Poems for Healing and Renewal

    By S T Kimbrough Jr. and J. Richard Watson

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    This little book of poems reveals how the author has dealt with the grief that accompanied the death of his wife of fifty-nine years. The poems are a conversation on the journey through the grieving process, which perhaps has no end. Yes, they are permeated with a deep faith that there is more to life than merely living and dying. At the same time, they are honest responses to how painful it is to lose your life partner.
    Many of the poems are autobiographical: about first encounter, marriage, life and love together, and death. The actual physical occurrence of death can be readily described by physicians, but its emotional and life effect is much more illusory. Without question, these poems are simply one person's response to death and grief. They provide no decisive answers on how to respond to either, but if one's open and honest response can help others address such challenges, so be it.
    The goal of the author is not to provide steps for the grieving, rather through poetry to share the thoughts of the heart and mind as they grapple with death and grief. He avers that through the very difficult process of grieving, which may never completely end, love alone is the key to healing and renewal.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherResource Publications
    Release dateJan 30, 2018
    ISBN9781532643743
    Of Death and Grief: Poems for Healing and Renewal
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    S T Kimbrough Jr.

    S T Kimbrough, Jr. is a Research Fellow of the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition of the Divinity School of Duke University and founder of The Charles Wesley Society. He is editor of its journal Proceedings of The Charles Wesley Society and author/editor of several books on Charles Wesley including: The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, 3 vols., and The Manuscript Journal of the Reverend Charles Wesley, M.A., 2 vols.

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      Of Death and Grief - S T Kimbrough Jr.

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      Of Death and Grief

      Poems for Healing and Renewal

      S T Kimbrough, Jr.

      Foreword by

      J. Richard Watson

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      Of Death and Grief

      Poems for Healing and Renewal

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      S T Kimbrough, Jr.. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher. Write: Permissions, Wipf and Stock Publishers,

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Dedication

      Foreword

      Preface

      Section 1: Death and Dying

      1. The Power of Death?

      2. Death and Life

      3. The Anguish of Death

      4. Death Absent and Near

      5. Where Is the Long-Awaited Calm?

      6. Death’s Holy Grail

      7. Till Death Us Do Part

      8. Grace-Filled Death

      9. Embrace the Dying

      Section 2: Grief and Grieving

      10. Grief Is but a Breath Away

      11. Grief

      12. Grief’s Redemption

      13. When Grief’s Dark Shadows Fill the Heart

      14. More Grief?

      15. Grief and Questions

      16. The Answer to Grief

      17. Sleeplessness, Grief’s Torturous Friend

      18. A Prayer for the Grieving

      19. Grief Is Ever on My Mind

      20. Secret Grief

      21. The Risk of Grief

      22. The Power of Grief?

      23. Make not of Grief an Idol

      24. Grief Comes and Goes

      25. Misdirected Grief

      26. The Brighter Side of Grief

      Section 3: Love and Loving

      27. Love and Grief

      28. The Medicine of Love

      29. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder

      30. Constancy

      31. Stronger Than Death

      32. The Eternal Art

      33. To Live Again

      Epilogue: God, Whose Love Revives the Soul

      In these piercingly honest poems occasioned by the death of his beloved wife, Sarah, S T Kimbrough, Jr., gives unguarded voice to his grief. This is not easy reading because these poems force us to face not only the death of those we love but our deaths. These are searing poems, but in a strange way they are beautiful.

      —Stanley Hauerwas, Professor of Theology and Ethics, 
Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina

      "In these 33 poems by S T Kimbrough, Jr., I found a depth of love, grief, passion and power that

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