A Word from Bob

We often think about grief and adults, but what about when our children struggle with loss and grief? When they face life’s losses, how do they find hope when they’re hurting?

In Grief and Your Child: Sharing God’s Comfort in Loss, I apply biblical principles of loss and hope to the grief experiences of children and teens. The book focuses on helping parents and counselors to understand and empathize with a child’s grieving heart. It then seeks to equip parents and counselors to help children and teens to find God’s healing hope in the midst of life’s painful losses.

Why This Frequent Theme?

Finding hope in loss has been a frequent theme of my counseling, speaking, and writing ministry.

One of my first books—and my best-selling book—is God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting. Written especially for and directly to the grieving person, in this short book with brief chapters, I contrast the world’s way of addressing grief with the Word’s pathway for our grief journey.

Then more recently I wrote Grief: Walking with Jesus. In this 31-day devotional booklet, I walk through the four Gospels exploring how Jesus grieved and how


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