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The Blessing of Sorrow
- Turning Grief into Healing
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Tackling one of life’s greatest mysteries, Rabbi Ben Kamin examines the diverse ways we mourn the death of a loved one. Drawn from his 40-plus years of counseling the bereaved, Kamin uses parables and stories to provide thoughtful insights on how to encounter and endure heartbreaking loss. He further stresses the importance of addressing grief in the present moment or risk harming our physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
- Rabbi Kamin offers solace and spiritual guidance on how to mourn in a productive and healthy way.
- A simple spiritual guide for those looking for reassurance about how to live and move forward after a loved one dies.
- Appeals to a wide range of listeners with an agnostic “spiritual not religious” narrative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learning from Pain
- By Dave on 02-20-19
By: Steve Leder
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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)
- A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
- By: Sallie Tisdale
- Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 181
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 154
You get ready to die the way you get ready for a trip. Start by realizing you don't know the way. Listen to a few travel guides. Study the language, look at maps, gather equipment. Let yourself imagine what it will be like. Pack your bags. This book is one of those travel guides - a guide to preparing for your own death and the deaths of people close to you. The fact of death is hard to believe. Sallie Tisdale explores our fears and all the ways death and talking about death make us uncomfortable - but she also explores its intimacies and joys.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I thought I had more time...
- By Alyssa on 09-09-19
By: Sallie Tisdale
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The Faith Club
- A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search for Understanding
- By: Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 104
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 90
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 92
After September 11, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent, faced constant questions about Islam, God, and death from her children, the only Muslims in their classrooms. Inspired by a story about Muhammad, Ranya reached out to two other mothers to write an interfaith children's book that would highlight the connections between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow I'm so glad I read this. I had no idea.
- By Michelle Pierce on 05-06-15
By: Ranya Idliby, and others
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Modern Loss
- Candid Conversation About Grief. Beginners Welcome.
- By: Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birkner
- Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell, Josh Bloomberg
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 39
At a time when we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, where intimate posts about loss go viral and we receive automated birthday reminders for dead friends, it's clear we are navigating new terrain without a road map. Let's face it: Most of us have always had a difficult time talking about death and sharing our grief. We're awkward and uncertain; we avoid, ignore, or even deny feelings of sadness; we offer platitudes; we send sympathy bouquets whittled out of fruit.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not What I Was Expecting
- By Bessie Mae on 03-01-23
By: Rebecca Soffer, and others
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Forgiven
- The Amish School Shooting, a Mother's Love, and a Story of Remarkable Grace
- By: Terri Roberts, Jeanette Windle
- Narrated by: Pamela Klein
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 75
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 61
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 59
After a son does the unthinkable, how can a mother go on? On October 2, 2006, a gunman entered an Amish one-room schoolhouse, shooting 10 girls, killing five, then finally taking his own life. This is his mother's story. Not only did she lose her precious son through suicide, but she also lost her understanding of him as an honorable man. It was a trauma that no one should ever have to face.
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5 out of 5 stars
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If they can forgive you can too
- By Grandma B on 06-25-19
By: Terri Roberts, and others
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Women Rowing North
- By: Mary Pipher
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 529
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 451
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Story4 out of 5 stars 448
Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The narrator is a distraction
- By Amazon Customer on 03-01-19
By: Mary Pipher
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Divine Alignment
- By: Squire Rushnell
- Narrated by: Squire Rushnell, Louise Duart
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 117
In his charmingly avuncular and wonderfully optimistic voice, SQuire shares moving stories from his own and others' lives to show the awesome strength inherent in what he calls God's positioning system, or GPS. Each of us, he assures listeners, can use our own personal GPS to grow more closely aligned with God to become vastly more effective, successful, and fulfilled in our relationships, our career, and everything we do.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I loved it. Very interesting.
- By SunShine on 01-24-17
By: Squire Rushnell
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Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers
- Finding Freedom from Hurt and Hate
- By: Jill Hubbard, Leslie Leyland Fields
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
"If our families are to flourish, we will need to learn and practice ways of forgiving those who have had the greatest impact upon us: our mothers and fathers." Through the authors' own compelling personal stories combined with a fresh look at the Scriptures, Forgiving Our Fathers and Mothers illustrates and instructs in the practice of authentic forgiveness, leading you away from hate and hurt toward healing, hope, and freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Powerful
- By Amazon Customer on 07-28-16
By: Jill Hubbard, and others
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My Sisters the Saints
- A Spiritual Memoir
- By: Colleen Carroll Campbell
- Narrated by: Susan Hanfield
- Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Story5 out of 5 stars 82
In My Sisters the Saints, author Colleen Carroll Campbell blends her personal narrative of spiritual seeking, trials, stumbles, and breakthroughs with the stories of six women saints who profoundly changed her life: Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, Faustina of Poland, Edith Stein of Germany, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, and Mary of Nazareth. Drawing upon the rich writings and examples of these extraordinary women, the author reveals Christianity's liberating power for women and the relevance of the saints to the lives of contemporary Christians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautifully written and sincere
- By mamabakineer on 01-23-20
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To Love and Be Loved
- A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa
- By: Jim Towey
- Narrated by: Jim Towey
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 29
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Story5 out of 5 stars 28
To Love and Be Loved is a firsthand account of Mother Teresa’s last years, and the first book ever to detail her dealings with worldly matters. We see her gracefully navigate the opportunities and challenges of leadership, the perils of celebrity, and the humiliations and triumphs of aging. We also catch her indulging in chocolate ice cream, making jokes about mini-skirts, and telling the president of the United States he’s wrong. Above all, we see her extraordinary devotion to God and to the very poorest of His children.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book I've read in a long time
- By John on 04-02-24
By: Jim Towey
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Encountering Heaven and the Afterlife
- True Stories from People Who Have Glimpsed the World Beyond
- By: James L. Garlow, Keith Wall
- Narrated by: James L. Garlow
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 69
What happens when we die? What is heaven really like? When we arrive, will we know people? What role do angels play in our lives? Can the amazing experiences of everyday people reveal insights into life “on the other side”? Trusted pastor Jim Garlow and experienced journalist Keith Wall believe they can.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don't waste your time
- By Mary on 08-21-10
By: James L. Garlow, and others
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On Death and Dying
- What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Family
- By: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Narrated by: Carol Bilger, cast
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 534
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 424
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 427
Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross created her classic seminal work, On Death and Dying, to offer us a new perspective on the terminally ill. It is not a psychoanalytic study, nor is it a "how-to" manual for managing death. Rather, it refocuses on the patient as a human being and a teacher, in the hope that we will learn from him or her about the final stages of life.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible narration
- By Nassir on 06-25-05
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How, Then, Shall We Live?
- Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives
- By: Wayne Muller
- Narrated by: Wayne Muller
- Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
For thousands of years, these questions - which span all major spiritual traditions - have served as beacons for spiritual seekers: Who am I? What do I love? How shall I live, knowing I will die? What is my gift to the family of the Earth? As he guides us through these questions, Muller weaves poetry with true stories of love, courage, grief, and transformation in order to show how beauty and wisdom come to us at unexpected times.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I really enjoyed this book.
- By Amazon Customer on 10-01-18
By: Wayne Muller
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Marrow
- A Love Story
- By: Elizabeth Lesser
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Lesser, Sally Field
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 208
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 208
A mesmerizing and courageous memoir: the story of two sisters uncovering the depth of their love through the life-and-death experience of a bone marrow transplant. Throughout her life Elizabeth Lesser has sought understanding about what it means to be true to yourself and, at the same time, truly connected to the ones you love. But when her sister, Maggie, needs a bone marrow transplant to save her life, and Lesser learns that she is the perfect match, she faces a far more immediate and complex question about what it really means to love.
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5 out of 5 stars
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“ Love came first “
- By marie on 03-26-18
By: Elizabeth Lesser
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Any Ordinary Day
- Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life
- By: Leigh Sales
- Narrated by: Leigh Sales
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 95
As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories - and a terrifying brush with her own mortality - sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? And when the worst does happen, what comes next?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and Timely
- By Elizabeth B on 10-06-18
By: Leigh Sales
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Fire Road
- The Napalm Girl's Journey Through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace
- By: Kim Phuc Phan Thi, Ashley Wiersma
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 144
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 136
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Story5 out of 5 stars 136
Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine-year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames - before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death.
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1 out of 5 stars
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The subtitle should warn what the book is
- By Rex Michael Dillon on 01-27-19
By: Kim Phuc Phan Thi, and others
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- ShamSham🤷
- 12-12-18
Insightful
The Blessing of Sorrow is so well-written. It is the kind of book that makes sense of an otherwise devastating experience most of us inevitably endure- the loss of a loved one. It helped me better understand the process of healing. It changed my perspective on the ever-evolving culture surrounding death, grief, & Beyond. GREAT READ!
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- Mr&Mrs
- 07-11-19
Moving and Healing
Loosing the strongest woman I know, my Gram, to Alzheimer's a little over a month ago, hit me harder than I expected. This book helped me through my guilt of not being with her the moment she left and helped me realize the blessings I had the last week with her. I wasn't expecting the amount of memories triggered or emotions that flooded over me. Some of which were from past losses I hadn't fully processed over the years. I cried almost every time I listened, but they were healing tears, sometimes even happy tears from fond memories flowed. (Good thing I listened on the way home and not to work). I especially liked the references to traditions of different faiths without condemning any or pushing any as the true answer. The Rabbi's stories and experiences helps one not feel alone and relate to many experiences with loss, not just death. I highly recommend this book to anyone!
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