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The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you figure out why. This 5-day plan is designed to help you answer the question “What is God’s purpose for my life?”

There are often times when we do not understand the difficult moments we are going through. This plan will help you understand that God allows pain, anguish, and suffering moments just for us to understand our current situation. It will be four days of reflection and immersion in the Word of God for you to understand what God wants from you. I know you will experience an incredible transformation!

Losing a friend or romantic partner can be devastating, especially when they choose to walk away from the relationship or you make the difficult decision to set a boundary. Either way, we are experiencing significant loss and grieving what we thought could be forever. In scripture, we are reminded of how much God cares for us, and despite the disappointment, we will experience in this life, our heavenly father is always near to us.

Grief is something we will all experience in this lifetime. The word grief is often used to describe the emotion of deep sorrow felt when someone we love has died. However, grief can also be a response to the loss of anything that has held meaning and significance in our life. So how can we find our way in our own times of grief and how can we walk as a compassionate friend alongside others who are grieving? I hope this plan may be a starting point for you as we look at some verses from the Bible and share some reflections.

We are never ready to lose someone we love. When Mike Nappa lost his wife, Amy, to cancer, he desperately asked friends to send Bible verses, which became a lifeline and source of comfort in his hardest hours. A collection of these verses, along with some of Mike's personal reflections on loss, will bring comfort when you need it and words to pray when the pain feels overwhelming.

Grief is hard to understand or explain. When I lost my husband, it was like combining sadness and loneliness with anxiety over what tomorrow would bring and fear of how I could possibly handle it all. If you find yourself struggling with grief, know you’re not alone. As I share in my novel The Shell Collector, God is always with us through pain and will help us navigate the path.

Finding The Light in Grief takes a deeper look into God's response to our sorrows through a study of John 11:35. Find Biblical truth in three minutes a day for one week in this study on Grief.

Your decisions determine the direction and quality of your life. While nobody plans to complicate their life with bad decisions, far too many people have no plan to make good decisions. In this five-day reading plan, you'll discover five game-changing questions to ask every time you make a decision.

Whether the loss you've experienced is large or small, it's not the end of your story. This 5-day plan walks you through some steps to move through grief and navigate your loss with God's help. You are not alone.

For many, the holidays are a time of great joy...but what happens when the holidays lose their sparkle and become challenging due to deep grief or loss? This special reading plan will help those going through grief to find comfort and hope for the holidays, and shares how to create a meaningful holiday season in spite of deep grief.

Several years ago, cancer took the life of my sister and left our family devastated. The heartbreak was unbearable. We were overwhelmed in our grief by what seemed like unanswered prayers. Loss is real, and the agony from loss is certain. Through this four-day plan, I pray you will come to trust God through your heartache and allow Him to sustain you.

Grief is one of life’s toughest challenges. Yet in the midst of your deepest despair, God reveals himself and his promises for a better tomorrow. Readings in this 7-day devotional, taken from the NIV Hope in the Mourning Bible, offer inspiration and hope based in God’s Word and promises to those who have lost loved ones.

Regret is something we all face at one time or another because we all make mistakes. How do we work through that regret when the pain is deep? This plan will explore ways we can acknowledge our regrets and move on from them. We don't have to be stuck, and if submitted to God, we can come out better on the other side of it.

Losing a loved one is utterly heartbreaking. It’s a terrible pain that no one can understand unless they’ve been in your shoes. This 5-day plan was written by women who have experienced loss and want to help you find comfort and peace in God’s Word. While this plan can’t help you accelerate the grief process, we believe it will help you endure the everyday hurts and give you hope.

Don’t get over it. Get through it. Dr. Carol Peters-Tanksley helps you discover your unique path through the grieving process in this powerful fourteen-day journey.

Grief touches us all but I hope this reading plan with beautiful guided prayers and powerful scriptures will help you face your feelings of denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Death affects us all but how do we cope when we lose a loved one? This plan provides hope and comfort in the midst of grief.

Are you struggling with heartache, doubt, or doubting God's goodness through a life storm? Are you experiencing apathy or distraction in your spiritual walk? This 7-Day reading plan will help to reveal any doubt you may hold in your heart and will help you to use doubt as a signal to grow closer to God's heart.

My job as a hospital chaplain has taught me a lot about what grief is—how it operates, how it affects us, and how it isolates those who suffer from it. In this devotional, we’ll talk about what it means to grieve. As you mourn your loss in the ways that come naturally to you, don’t limit yourself to the following few days. Take as long as you need.

We all grieve differently. For an Enneagram One, the tendency toward perfectionism and the desire for order can make grief even more complicated. This 4-day plan, from critically acclaimed author Andrew Kooman, gives some guidance, companionship, and hope to those in grief.

There is a lot of grief and sorrow in the world. This is all a result of human sin, and we are facing the consequences every day. The Bible does not play that down. But it also shows us how it is possible to rejoice in the midst of sorrow, and how God will ultimately create a new earth where grief and sorrow will be no more.

Grief is not an experience reserved for death. It's a human response to loss, endings, and unwanted goodbyes. Our hard stories are grief-worthy, but many of us don't let ourselves grieve because our loss doesn't fit into the typical grief box. This plan showcases women of the Bible who held hard stories and found hope and healing when they put their trust in the God Who sees.

Vance K. Jackson leads readers in this wisdom-packed devotional. God does not inflict pain. Nor does God inflict sorrow. In fact, God has carried our sorrow away through the shed Blood of His Son — Jesus Christ. Godly sorrow worketh repentance. When a father corrects, out of love, it is to set his children — both natural and spiritual, on the right course. Let God’s Word lead your heart.

The kids are melting down, life keeps throwing curveballs, and you are simply overwhelmed. When family life is harder to cope with, God offers strength, compassion, and tender mercy. This 5-day devotional teaches parents how to cope with the hard things in life by putting on the armor of God, so kids, in turn, can learn by example to deal with emotions in a healthy way.

Are the waves of grief taking you under because of pain and sorrow weighing down on your heart? Do you find it difficult to accept what was - is no longer? Fortunately, through God’s promises, a grieving heart can heal. This 5-day Bible plan guides the bereaved through healing, reflecting, and applying God’s promises to a grieving heart.