The God of All Comfort: Finding Your Way into His Arms

by Dee Brestin

After losing her fifty-nine-year-old husband to cancer, Dee Brestin wondered if her life was over as well. She ached for God's comfort but felt utterly alone. Then she discovered a secret that suffering souls through the centuries have She began using psalms and classic hymns to speak the truth to her fretful soul. The truths carried by these timeless songs---many of which Brestin includes in this book---can calm the most fretful spirit. They invite the wounded heart to be quiet before God, to rest like a child in the arms of a loving parent. Each of us must travel down roads of bereavement, betrayal, and broken dreams. The God of All Comfort will help readers find their way into the arms of God. With compassion and spiritual wisdom, Brestin draws on the difficult beauty of her own story as well as her skills as a Bible teacher to offer companionship, comfort, and hope. Data

Genres: Christian, Christian Living, Grief

272 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Dee Brestin (http://www.deebrestin.com) is excited about seeing lives changed. Her most recent book is Idol Lies where she tells how the Lord set her free of manipulating people and healed her relationships. Her book The Friendships of Women has sold over a million copies and was recently released in a 20th Anniversary Edition. Falling in Love with Jesus has sold over 400,000 copies. Dee has written twenty Bible studies, the first of which, Proverbs and Parables, has been in print for over thirty years. A graduate of Northwestern University, Dee has studied with Covenant Seminary. She is the mother of five grown children and lives in Wisconsin.

Reviews

[Krista · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was an awesome book! I highly recommend it to anyone going through the grief process. It was a tremendous help to me as learn to let God comfort me in my pain.

[Heidi · Rating 4 out of 5]

4-4.5 stars.
A straightforward, thoughtful, very personal book on how God meets us, comforts us and shapes us through the suffering and loss in our lives. The authors particular suffering was a devastating cancer diagnosis for her husband at an early age and his death at age 59. She includes some of her journal entries along the cancer journey, as well as entries from the months and years after his death. I liked that she gave an up close view of what it is like to suffer, grieve, experience confusion and many emotions in loss, but also gradually see God’s work in and through that loss. I also really appreciated that hymns and songs were very much a part of her story - and part of the reflection questions after each of the 10 chapters. Music reaches beyond our intellect into our hearts and wordless emotions and imaginations, and as such, has tremendous power to comfort and guide and ground us in grief and sorrow.
This was a good book that I will recommend and likely will read again.

[Gayle England-Triplett · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is for YOU.

Healing, hopeful, full of Gid's love...recommended reading for everyone. Whether you are broken, healing, or healed, this book will help you. Share your healing with others. You always get more than you give. God bless you.

[Kristen Kelley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I needed this book to remind me to lean into the psalms and to return to hymns to provide comfort during rough waters. This book isn’t a linear ready of Dee’s loss, but sure was an honest conversation of how she navigates the Valleys and all the emotions.

[Shellie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was very good for anyone who can relate to a grief journey.
Encouraging and validating.