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Books

What do you do when your worst nightmare unfolds right before your very eyes? What do you do when all that you have planned for and dreamed about unravels in one heartbeat? What do you do when you feel something precious slipping out of your grasp and all you can do is watch it go ~ helplessly, watch it go? These are the difficult questions in life that no one ever wants the opportunity to answer. Yet, in her debut book, The Unkind Companion, Marlo Peddycord Francis pulls from her own harrowing experiences with loss and offers the bereaved a glimpse into the first stages of healing with candid honesty and heartfelt compassion. The Unkind Companion, the flagship of The Widow’s Might Trilogy, begins a journey in which Marlo helps the grieved discover what it truly means to take devastating loss and transform it into usable experience. Not only does she teach us what it means to trust God when everything inside wants to curl up and quit; but just as importantly what it means to develop a heart where peace and pain can coexist within the love of Christ. The Unkind Companion is a testimony of God's grace and abundant provision in an arena that too often leaves the broken-hearted weary and defeated. Let Marlo's experience encourage you to reach for the glorious future that God has awaiting those who will step out and believe that after loss ~ there can be abundant life.

How do you explain the painful truths of death to a child? How can a young person grasp the finality of passing from this life to the next and still feel safe and secure in the world around them? In, Benny-With-a-Cowlick Gets Some Very Sad News, young and old are introduced to loveable little Benny, a five-year-old who suddenly loses both his daddy and grandfather in a summer day's tragedy. Benny learns that he'll always have his big blue eyes and fluffy cowlick to remember his daddy by. He also learns that the questions and feelings that pile up under his cowlick can be talked out with his mommy who loves him very much. Benny-With-a-Cowlick Gets Some Very Sad News, approaches healing through the eyes of a child with candid emotions and honest feelings. This first book in the Benny-With-a-Cowlick Series walks children through the very earliest moments of grief and prepares them for learning to live with loss in a productive way. Look for future books in the Benny-With-a-Cowlick series, coming soon from Tate Publishing.