A Chronicle of Grief: Finding Life After Traumatic Loss

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award

"Eva not breathing. Pray."

That text message was Mel Lawrenz's entry into the harsh reality of losing his thirty-year-old daughter. Things would never bethe same. How could he and his family cope with this devastating loss?

In this narrative of grief, Pastor Mel Lawrenz chronicles how his family struggled to survive the sudden death of their beloved daughter. In raw, vivid episodes, he describes the immediacy of the pain and the uncertainty of what comes ...