How Long Does Mourning Last

by B.J. Coleman

BJ is a young woman trying to heal from the death of her beloved husband killed in the Vietnam War. Her journey to healing takes her through suicide attempts, a second marriage, motherhood, a cult investigation, a second widowhood, and depression. She confronts these without the life skills needed, which leads to much fear and anger, feelings she stores inside her heart. Eventually, she finds the peace she has searched for in God. But just when she feels her heart beginning to heal, she must face more challenges in her life that send her spiraling back into the depths of depression and anger. How can she survive this again? Where was God when she needed Him? She learns her healing has just begun and how God will use her to heal many others.

210 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 10, 2018

About the author

BJ Coleman began writing poetry as a young woman. She was presented with an opportunity to publish a few of her works and given another opportunity to write articles for a Christian woman magazine. Her passion was writing, but her reality was that she had four children to raise. She was a stay-at-home mom until they finished high school. At 46, her children gone and recently widowed for the second time, she enrolled in a computer class and some writing classes, where she was encouraged by her instructors to write her memoirs, if only for her own pleasure. It seemed God had other plans for her writing. Through a series of events, her story evolved into a book she wanted to share with anyone who was dealing with grief in an extreme way: especially those affected by war.
She is an amateur blogger on her website, bjcolemanwriter.com, where visitors can subscribe to learn about her book releases. Her latest book, “A Time to Weep-A Time to Laugh” is a work of fiction based on fact about dealing with adoptions from the view of both sides.

Reviews

[stacey bender · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved reading this book. I'm usually not much on Memoirs but this was a good one. My heart breaks for loved lost and the lives lost by the hands of the war. Thank you Mrs Coleman for being so brave and sharing your life with us!

[Jennie Riddle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't put this book down, read it cover to cover.