Grieving Grace

by Douglas Spurling, Virtual Voice (Narrator)

Grieving Grace is penned with pain as words bleed from heart to page. Doug writes about the death march with his family as they spend sleepless nights and tearful days by the bedside of their dying mother. Death comes to us all; we have that in common. But the way it comes is as unique as you. And death comes in its own time. For those who are afforded the foreknowledge of its coming there is a process that takes place within a person and they begin to understand the reality of their own mortality. During this process people begin to withdraw from this world as they prepare to enter the next. Experience what takes place from both sides of the bed as Grieving Grace “This part of our story was written two weeks before our mother’s home going. It represents what often takes place prior to death. As you read notice the different manifestations common within the process of withdrawal.” Grieving Grace shares real life stories as they happen and answers tough questions How do you say good-bye? How do you tell her she’s dying? What do kids know about going? What are the five W’s of withdrawal? What common symptoms accompany the dying? What happens in the final weeks, days and hours? Death’s constant companion is grief and its home looks like an endless tunnel dark and deep. But it’s no place to call home—only a place to travel through. There is an exit to grief’s dark tunnel and you can find it. These stories, although sown in sorrow, provide comfort and hope for those traveling through the dark days of grief. Grieving Grace written in grief reaps a harvest of relief.

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First published May 1, 2013

About the author

My bio includes stuff like: Professional Rodeo. Youth Pastor. Church Founder. Columnist. Catastrophe Adjuster. Business Owner. Author.

But really, I’ve been a pro mistake-maker. A face-in-the-dirt-planter. Bucked off more horses than ridden, out of more marriages than entered and quit more jobs than started.

I spent my youth around St. Peter, MN, claiming I could teach anyone how to water ski.

Quit Bible College to fix my parent’s marriage. I couldn't.

Ended up driving truck for Coke and playing cowboy.

Married a rodeo girl. Had four awesome kids, found the moral compass I’d lost, helped pioneer a church, became youth pastor and business owner. Life was great...until it wasn't.

After twelve years...divorce. I was broken.

Staggered through two marriages long enough for the ink to dry and fell into a catastrophe adjuster job that suited my restless soul. Little did I know, years of helping folks through their disasters, helped me through mine.

Healed enough to love again—this time it stuck.

Around fifty, I did some soul searching and yielded to a buried passion—writing.

Since then, I've written a few books. My first, Grieving Grace started out as a series of blog posts written simply to comfort my family as we staggered through grief's long dark tunnel toward our mother's grave. After seeing the comfort these posts provided, we made it available in book format.

My second book, Adjuster’s Life, is simply a written extension of years helping others to be catastrophe adjusters.

My third book, my favorite, is a novel, The Voice. After writing it, I said, “Now I can die. Everything I'd ever want to show about life and Godliness is wrapped in this story."

After a half century of getting bucked off life, I accepted my calling and realized it’d been there all along.

I write all about it on my blog: Spurling Silver