Grief Undone: A Journey with God and Cancer

Grief Undone: A Journey with God and CancerGrief Undone is the breathtakingly honest, yet hopeful account of how Elizabeth (Libbie) and Al Groves walked with God through Al's terminal cancer. Their true storysaturated with in the moment Scriptural reflections, blogs, and fervent prayerspaints a stunning picture of how faith transforms the human experience of suffering. But Grief Undone is more than the chronicle of one family's courage in the face of cancer. At its core, Grief Undone tells a

Grief Undone is the breathtakingly honest, yet hopeful account of how Elizabeth (Libbie) and Al Groves walked with God through Al's terminal cancer. Their true story—saturated with in-the-moment Scriptural reflections, blogs, and fervent prayers—paints a stunning picture of how faith transforms the human experience of suffering. But Grief Undone is more than the chronicle of one family's courage in the face of cancer. At its core, Grief Undone tells a story about the God who is with his people through each and every circumstance in life. Grief Undone will inevitably display the beauty of Christ's sustaining love for his people through trials that seemed too hard to bear. Though grief threatens to undo us, we find that we are not destroyed, but sustained by God's presence. Story-driven and real, Grief Undone avoids the usual traps of being preachy, gratuitous, or dismissive in the face of suffering and grief. Modeling rather than teaching about healthy and God-honoring grief, Grief Undone is uniquely practical for those who are grieving as well as the pastors, counselors, and friends who seek to help them.

Publisher: New Growth Press
Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781939946522

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Elizabeth W. D. Groves, MAR, grew up in New England and now teaches Hebrew at Westminster Theological Seminary. She is the author of the book Grief Undone: A Journey with God and Cancer and the minibook Becoming a Widow: The Ache of Missing Your Other Half. She had four children, ages thirteen and up when her husband Al died in 2007, and two granddaughters were born after his death.

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"Deepest joy and profoundest hope is often best seen through glistened eyes. This collection of brief but exceedingly poignant reflections on the death of one of the Lord's saints will have many readers thanking God with hearts weeping but overflowing because the subject is not ultimately Al's death or his family's journey through grief; it's about how the presence of Jesus bathes even the land of darkest sorrow in light." Dan McCartney, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Redeemer Theological Seminary