PATRICIA. NICHOLS-JOHNSON
Description
Becoming a widow compels you to relocate, so moving forward and living with loss take you on a journey.
Whether you relocate emotionally, spiritually
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, geographically, financially, socially, or culturally, moving forward on your widow's journey to and through these new spaces requires time, emotional resilience, risk, and the mere courageous act of taking the next step. 13 women of faith have joined the author in sharing their respective widow's journeys with honesty, emotion, and a fair degree of boldness. They know, that like the woman in the cover photo, widows carry the wearisome weight of grief, loss, uncertainty, and new responsibilities. They also know, though, that moving forward into God's strength forges a "widow's might" - that ability to walk with confidence, trust...and the prospect of change into the future God is unfolding, before her.. The author captured these stories in recorded interviews and shaped them into journey narratives from which she has also extracted "lessons learned along the way" - inspirational, practical, and informative lessons that other widows can use to make their journeys smoother, transformative, and purposeful.
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