Your post may be an answer to prayer - I am going to Atlanta this weekend to be support for my brother and his long-time girlfriend as she buries her youngest daughter. Her death was tragic and senseless, due to an accidental mix of prescription meds and social drugs.
They are not atheists by any stretch of the imagination, but they are not people of faith - they are in between and desperately hurting. No parent should have to bury their own child - it is just not a natural life event, and I can not imagine any hurt more deep than that.
I am buying that book today - Thank you, Gary!
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"Who among the gods is like you, O LORD ?
Who is like you—
majestic in holiness,
awesome in glory,
working wonders?" Exodus 15:11
http://www.achurchforthecity.org"I don't reject your Christ, I love your Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike your Christ." Mahatma Ghandi