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Is there only you? Then join Gayle as she draws on her emotions during the loss of her beloved husband, Chuck, and offers you a compassionate devotional to encourage you through your darkest days. Gayle knows a widow's pain is deep. But she also knows God's love is deeper still, and it's in His love you'll find your deepest comfort.

Hope for Widows is a valuable source of encouragement and comfort as you adjust to your new normal and reimagine an active life with purpose in your future. With personal reflections, questions, and expressions of gratitude, join Marilyn Nutter in recognizing God's faithful presence in details and unusual places. Having lost her husband of forty-two years, Marilyn offers sixty-five brief readings that cover widows' universal experiences with empathy and poignant honesty.

Life after a husband's death is full of grief, uncertainty, and loneliness. Who can possibly understand the heavy ache of this new life that must be lived alone? Only someone who has lived this experience too. In Prayers for a Widow's Journey, a collection of more than 100 reflective prayers, author Gayle Roper talks to the Lord about what it feels like to be caught in the unsought solitude of widowhood. Each prayer is accompanied by a verse from Scripture that grounds the prayer not in self-pity, but in an awareness of the boundless care of the God of all comfort.

Many of us in the body of Christ are living below our privileges as sons and daughters of God. We yearn for more in our experience with him but don't know what's missing. In A Widow's Might, Judy Knox reveals the missing element and explains how to get it. Losing her husband due to complications following heart surgery could have been devastating. Instead, Judy's 10 weeks with him in the hospital ICU became a turning point, where she turned from her own strength to God's.

"Eternal Bond: A Widow's 40-Day Journey of Faith and Love" by William Gomes is a deeply insightful and supportive guide, specifically crafted for widows grappling with the intricacies of loss. Over a transformative 40-day period, this journey encompasses daily scripture readings, poignant reflections, and tailored personal exercises.

Women who are facing the reality of widowhood are often connected by a common thread of grief and uncertainty. Hope for an Aching Heart offers encouragement to help listeners handle the challenges of each day with God’s grace.

What's next when your happily ever-after turns into the never-ever-again of widowhood? Delve into the Book of Ruth for remarkable direction, hope, and purpose drawn from the lives of ancient widows, but fresh and applicable for today. Twenty-five fictional postcards bring Bible characters to life and show their individual journeys through grief, and short chapters speak to widows' unique challenges.

This narrative of true love, sudden death, and authentic faith involves Lee, a golden California boy who becomes an air force fighter pilot, and Tina, a Midwestern girl turned air force nurse. Their lives are tragically interrupted when Lee, husband and father of their two children, dies suddenly.

The powerful testimonies of 11 widows of the Bible are brought to narrative life in lyrical, visceral prose that brings listeners deep inside the women's grief, strength, and faith. Full of both haunting and hope, Not Alone connects Biblical widows' voices in a chorus of commiseration that reminds us what it means to love - and what it means to live with God.