The Unwanted Blessing
A collage of feelings, events, questions, and prayers — signposts of comfort for those who are not alone.
The Unwanted Blessing
When you grieve, the world changes. Most writing on grief views it from the outside—like seeing a distant planet through a telescope. The Unwanted Blessing is written by a father at the center of it all, dealing with the loss of a son to cancer. Rather than offering answers or distractions, it offers a collage of feelings, events, questions, and prayers—a close-up, first-hand orientation to an unmapped landscape. The new terrain is laid bare at your feet, stripped of any intellectual veneer. In acknowledging the way it is, the book provides signposts of comfort in simply letting the reader know they are not alone. Perhaps grieving is about going to where God is absent for a bit, so that we can find him again. Perhaps it is God's unwanted blessing.
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"The Unwanted Blessing is a beautiful and heartbreaking love song—to lost children, to God, even to pain and grief. This book of scattered poems, pictures, and letters is a reminder that life is both a gift and utterly beyond our control."
Stefany Anne Golberg
author, Dead People
"Simply said, Jim is the real deal and his words offer a thoughtful reflection on the death of a loved one in the midst of living, while somehow inviting a deeper connection to God."
Tavye Morgan Triemer
spiritual director
"The Unwanted Blessing hits the core of those who have been touched by loss too early. The pursuit to move forward shadowed by grief is a testament to a super human condition."
Vince Zangaro
Alzheimer's Music Fest