In the Waiting

By Karen R. Jones

In the waiting will speak to the broken places of the readers heart, showing compassion, courage and inspiration that you are not in this walk alone, the Lord walk with us, he will never leave us alone, as we cry, scream, greatly miss the ones we love. and eventually get the desire to live again as the Lord helps us to get up again and begin our climb out of the pit of grief.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Dec 3, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664248656

Karen R. Jones

Karen Jones is a grandmother of three beautiful teenage girls, two of whom she is now raising. The girls have played a big part in Karen wanting to reach out to those hurting from pains of loss, and allow them to see there is life and hope after death, but we must take our time and Wait, because In The Waiting God will use our grief to restore, shape and mold us into persons whose hearts are opened so much more to love again `than we could imagine.

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021922221

WestBow Press rev. date: 11/22/2021

Contents

Dedication

The Paralysis of Grief

One

Two

Two (Memories)

Three (The Journey)

Scriptures

Notes:

About the Author

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Dedication

This book is dedicated to my son Rick. Granddaughters and family who have lost much this year, but have stuck together trusted God and held on through the waiting.

In life you never know what your going to go through, but one thing I know grief will one day come a knocking. When death comes to visit someone you love" and it will, know matter how prepared you feel you are, you are never ready . Grief can hit so hard that it knocks the very life out of you. Death has no picks, it doesn’t care who you are, rich, poor black or white, young or old when death comes a knocking you better believe grief is right behind him. Grief can so intangle your heart that some don’t make it out. It can cast such a shadow of loneliness and despair, that nudges little by little at your sanity, everything you thought you were, you thought you could handle is shattered right before your eyes. Confusion can set in to a point that reality seems to slip away.

You can’t think or eat, even the thought of living seems to become a challenge. All you know is your in a deep dark pit there’s no escaping you can’t climb out of it. Your swallowed up by such pain. I’ve found some that have been swallowed up so by disbelief that they are years later still waiting hoping that that love one just might get up out of the grave and they can begin to live again. We must deal with the finality of death in order to be restored and move on with life. It is my true belief we can not go through it alone we need the father. I must honestly say if it had not been for my faith in God, his walking beside me, I wouldn’t of made it out or