Tracing God’s faithfulness in grief

A Journey of Hope Grace Wulff. Yellow Rose Publishing (Box 23033, Vernon, B.C. V1T 9L8), 2005. 129 pages.

A Journey of Hope is a story of overcoming grief.

Wulff tells about her grandmother’s heart-wrenching grief at the loss of her young husband and child. Further, she tells about her first husband’s unspoken grief at the tragic death of his parents when he was only 15. Then Wulff goes on to share her own story of grief when losing her first husband to cancer. She’s honest about her struggles of fear and anger and the feelings of loneliness and helplessness. She shows how some people helped and others hindered the process of grieving. She relates how each of her teen children grieved in their own way.

“It is in our deepest pain, when we’re totally helpless, we can choose to either be bitter or to throw ourselves on God,” she writes.

Her own experience with grief has fueled a passion to help other grieving persons. In 1998, Wulff founded New Hope, a support organization that seeks to encourage widows and widowers.

“No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope because God is faithful and will help us through it,” she writes.

This book shows how God’s redeeming love in the midst of grief turns a painful ending into a new beginning.

Helen Grace Lescheid, author of three books and numerous articles, is a member of South Abbotsford MB Church, Abbotsford.