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A Grief Sanctified: Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope: Including Richard Baxter’s Timeless Memoir of His Wife’s Life and Death is unavailable, but you can change that!

In his timeless memoir of his wife’s life and death, prolific author and Puritan theologian Richard Baxter describes a love story, not of fairy tales, but of faithfulness from beginning to end. After losing his wife of nineteen years, Baxter sought consolation and relief in Scripture and writing. Within days, he produced a poignant lover’s tribute that has become a classic memoir. In A Grief...

none of those around can know and share what he feels; which is how it is in real life. “I miss her terribly” (I quote from a letter just received)—how many bereaved spouses and parents have used such words, knowing as they did so that they were voicing an essentially private pain into which outsiders could not enter. The loneliness of grief is one of the worst and most draining things about it—and, be it said, one of the most dangerous, too. Richard, who had a way with words, stated that his memoir
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