Comments on: A Cry of Grief https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/ Best-Selling Christian Author Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:07:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: David Gu https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/comment-page-16/#comment-28398 Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:07:32 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9882#comment-28398 Reading this is really something, especially I’ve just finished reading your memoir. I am serving the baptist church in South Korea and your books have helped me so much to help those who doubt and struggle, including myself. May grace and peace overflow to you and your family from God and our Savior, Jesus Christ.

]]> By: Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/comment-page-16/#comment-27289 Sun, 24 Mar 2024 19:24:40 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9882#comment-27289 In reply to Tamyra Carter.

The pastor there, James Hoxworth, is a good friend (and my ski buddy). You’re in good hands.

]]> By: Tamyra Carter https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/comment-page-15/#comment-27288 Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:06:52 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9882#comment-27288 Hi Philip, I met you and Janet a long time ago at LOMCC. I felt blessed b/c I had no idea who you were when we met. So, our conversation was very cool. My friends informed me later who you were. I would say sorry, but I’m glad that I met you w/o an previous known of your “celebrity”. Anyway, after LOMCC, I floundered and then, when my mom died I isolated like crazy. Lately, I have visited The Bridge at Bear Creek and I love it. It was one church I listened to online during covid. Anyway, I hope you and Janet are doing well. I’m sorry to be so long wind ended. But, I wanted to let you know that I have continued to be encouraged by you and Janet. God bless!

]]> By: Thomas Holton https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/comment-page-15/#comment-27287 Thu, 21 Mar 2024 03:41:36 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9882#comment-27287 Your appearance on the ‘Chosen Docuseries’ brought me here. Reading the book ‘Ordinary Heroes’ about 9/11 and the FDNY has dropped me into an unanticipated depression, after being able to withstand and suppress those feeling for 20+ years. Not willing to ‘let God be in charge’ has had a negative profound affect for a number of years. I’m grateful for discovering this docuseries, for looking you up even though I’ve read a couple of your books, and for ‘Ordinary Heroes’ for helping me get some of this weight off my brain after so many years. Glad to have discovered this blog.

]]> By: Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/comment-page-15/#comment-27286 Sun, 17 Mar 2024 01:48:40 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9882#comment-27286 In reply to Hala Brake.

Oh my, this is so sad. Your grief is so deep because your love for her is so deep. I am so sorry for your loss.

]]> By: Hala Brake https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/comment-page-15/#comment-27285 Sat, 16 Mar 2024 23:55:00 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9882#comment-27285 What you wrote is absolutely very true. I am grieving the sudden loss of my 19 yr old daughter (car accident). I am really sad about all the beautiful things that she was ready to achieve. She was one month away from graduating from college to become a PA. So ambitious, so beautiful, and so loving. I am angry, absent, and find it unfair. Like Eric he had a full life ahead of him. She is always on my mind and thoughts.
Literally I knocked my head against the walls when the police came to tell me. Your words are helping me through my grief journey. Thank you.

]]> By: Lynne McCleery https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/comment-page-15/#comment-27284 Fri, 01 Sep 2023 13:48:11 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9882#comment-27284 Philip, may you and your brother continue to find forgiveness and peace at the death of your mother.]]> 🥀 Philip, may you and your brother continue to find forgiveness and peace at the death of your mother.

]]> By: Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/comment-page-15/#comment-27283 Thu, 29 Jun 2023 14:26:58 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9882#comment-27283 In reply to Michael.

Yes, and I have written several books about this very issue, recording my own struggles. I believe Where Is God When It Hurts and Disappointment with God are still available in Russian, if you’re interested.

]]> By: Michael https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/comment-page-15/#comment-27282 Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:33:21 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9882#comment-27282 One of the hardest things is to keep believing in God. I’ve been going through a crisis of faith for a couple of years now. If there is no God, it basically means that everything is meaningless. We live, we suffer, we die and this is it. It is very depressing. If there is God, we have at least some hope of afterlife. We suffer but after death we can go to Heaven. So basically speaking, I want to go to Heaven (who does not?) but the a disproportionate amount of suffering in this life can prevent one from keeping the faith in God.

]]> By: Ann-Elise Madeira Grosser https://philipyancey.com/a-cry-of-grief/comment-page-14/#comment-27281 Mon, 12 Jun 2023 16:49:32 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=9882#comment-27281 Thank you, Philip, for sharing your poignant lament with us. What a testimony to God’s grace that He held you through the difficult years of your childhood and gave you a loving and appreciative heart for your mother. She was obviously a complex woman who loved Jesus deeply, and it was good to read her obituary and to learn that her work for the Kingdom was honored by Immanuel College.

You and your family are in our prayers as you mourn your loss and as you face your battle with devastating disease.

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