A Widow S Prayer

Losing a spouse is always traumatic. In this book of 60 devotions, Nell Noonan candidly shares her experiences in the 26 months following the death of her husband. Emphasizing that each person's journey through grief is unique, Noonan encourages readers to turn to God for strength, comfort, and healing. Her devotions are grouped into 4 sections: Part 1: Sorrowing, Sighing, and Consolations; Part 2: Broken and Blessed; Part 3: Healing and Hope; Part 4: Mourning to Morning. Noonan reminds readers they can count on God's steadfast love and presence every day. This book is a helpful resource for women making the transition from wife to widow.

Margaret Nyman learned of her husband’s cancer only 42 days before he died. After four decades of marriage to Nate, she was thrown into widowhood, with all the emotions and questions that follow. She reached out to God with her aching heart, and now she’s helping other widows to do the same in her book Prayers for a Widow’s Heart. This Scripture-based book of 60 prayers brings hope and healing to widows by offering heartfelt prayers and biblical reminders of God’s promises.

Pray A-Z: A Practical Guide to Praying for Your Community will help you topically organize your prayer requests and lay the burdens of your community at the feet of our Heavenly Father. Whether you are praying for a friend's adoption journey, a neighbor's bankruptcy, or a family member's cancer, this book will give you Bible verses, prayer prompts, and prayer starts to guide you through praying for even the most difficult issues that affect the people you know and love. Perfect for either individual or group prayer, Pray A-Z will help you experience the peace that comes from communicating with God.

A Widow's book of Prayer and Life Journal will help you explore the new world of being a widow. Often anger at God is our only outlet and this book will help you regain your relationship with the Lord and give you strength, courage and most of all the will to continue living life to the fullest. Praying and releasing all of your deapest thoughts, worries and fears to the Lord is the best way to to regain your confidence in yourself and in the Lord. He has a plan and knows what he is doing. We may not understand it or like it, but we do not have to like it. We must honor the Lord with our correct and appropriate behavior in all things. In doing this we also honor our loved one who is gone. Our family and friends need us and we need them. Now is not the time to check out of life and give up. Open up and allow the emotions to be what they are. They are a reaction you have control over. Take a deep breath and dive in.

This prayer book is like no other, written by a widow for widows. Prayers center on the real emotions and real situations a widow faces. A powerful resource for grief minister, family members, and friends.

Life crises threaten our spiritual stability. Losing a loved one—whether or not you expect their death—is always traumatic. The trauma of adjusting to the new identity of widow while facing a multitude of questions and urgent decisions can be overwhelming. In this book of 60 meditations, Nell Noonan candidly shares her experiences in the 26 months after the death of her husband. She describes her journey in grief as packed with blessings and brokenness. Despite the low points, she managed to find God in the midst of bereavement. Noonan acknowledges that each person's grief journey is unique. "My writing is not meant to tell anyone what or how or when to do anything," Noonan says. "The devotions are only meant to be messages that I want to hold your hand, feel our pain, and hopefully we will be able to inch slowly, step-by-step into being more whole, less broken—into new, peace-filled life." This book will help widows, whether they choose to read it alone or with a group. A good resource for grief support groups, and an appropriate gift to show your concern for any woman grieving the loss of her husband.