A Long Letting Go: Meditations on Losing Someone You Love

by Marilyn McEntyre

Overview

Wise, nurturing reflections for caregivers letting go of loved ones
This beautiful volume of reflections by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre is for family members and friends who are doing the life-changing work of accompanying someone on the final stretch of his or her journey. In quiet counterpoint to our hurried lives, A Long Letting Go invites caregivers to slow down for reflection and prayer as they prepare to say good-bye to a beloved friend or family member and grieve that loss.
Based on McEntyre's personal and professional experience with the dying, these gentle meditations — each consisting of a short opening quote, a reflection, and a prayer — offer comfort, direction, hope, and respite to caregivers during a difficult season of their lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467444019
Publisher:	Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Publication date:	07/20/2015
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	157 KB

About the Author

Marilyn McEntyre is the award-winning author of several books on language and faith, including Where the Eye Alights, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, When Poets Pray, Make a List, Word by Word, and What's in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause, winner of the 2015 Christianity Today book award in spirituality.

Marilyn McEntyre is the author of multiple books on language and faith, including  What’s in a Phrase? Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause (winner of a  Christianity Today 2015 book award in spirituality),  Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict, Make a List: How a Simple Practice Can Change Our Lives and Open Our Hearts, and Start with a Word:  On the Craft and Adventure of Writing.  She teaches writing at Western Theological Seminary and New College Berkeley and coaches writers.

Editorial Reviews

Michael Card
— musician and writer
"Marilyn McEntyre embodies simple, patient kindness in the pages of this book."

Samuel Wells
— vicar of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London
"When we face our own death, or the death of someone dearer to us than life itself, we perceive as-yet formless truths and strive to articulate the fearful truths we apprehend. What we need is a companion who can abide amid our chaos, a sage who can choose the right moment to share a word, and a prophet who can say the thing we shrink from, yet need to hear. Marilyn Chandler McEntyre is all of these things. Going gently with her into the prison of death will set you free."

Topeka Capital-Journal
“Letting go of a loved one who is nearing the end of life is a difficult proposition, no matter how you slice it. Drawing from her years as a hospice volunteer, as well as from her experience of caring for her own family members, Marilyn Chandler McEntyre delves into this delicate subject with grace and compassion in her new book.”

Sharing the Practice
"A beautiful book of meditations."

Christian Century
"McEntyre's language is reflective and sensitive but not sentimental. . . . A thoughtful and realistic window into the often hidden, though well-traveled, end-of-life journey."

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