Living with Loss [Paperback]

Dan Moseley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2008

In his first book, Dr. Dan Moseley shares a different way of viewing the losses in life. This honest reflection reveals a pastor who, after many years of caring for others as they experienced loss, found he was ill prepared when an intense season of death and loss impacted his life. Dr. Moseley's personal discoveries and those of friends who have shared their stories with him are found in this book. From a heart of hope he encourages readers to grieve at their own pace and look for the new life emerging in the space loss creates.

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About the Author

Dan Moseley is the Herald B. Monroe Professor of Practical Parish Ministry at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis. He is the president of the Disciples Peace Fellowship and has served as a pastor and executive minister.

Product Details

• Paperback: 126 pages
• Publisher: Xyzzy Press (January 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1601480059
• ISBN-13: 978-1601480057
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #932,059 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Life After Loss, February 20, 2008

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Christopher R. Brundage - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living with Loss (Paperback)

This is an excellent book on the psychology of grief and loss, with balance and sensitivity in discussing the struggles as well as the potential for new life. It's full of a lot of earthy wisdom presented in language clear as a mountain stream.

Moseley takes readers through not so much stages as overlapping aspects of loss: truly absorbing and naming one's loss; handling the anger and guilt that inevitably come with it; remembering who or what was lost and being grateful for those memories; and cultivating a sense of play and newness in life. There is much emphasis on finding suitable companions to walk with us in our time of loss.

Especially helpful was his discussion in Chapter 8 of the different voices that vie for our attention--voices from the past, from the present, from within, and from the future--and how we can listen to these voices in a way that respects our need for stability and adventure.

A pastor and pastoral theologian, Moseley writes out of a faith perspective, but explicit issues of faith are touched on only at the end, and then with gentleness. This book is suitable for people with any religious background, or none at all. The only requirement really is to have known that universal human experience of loss.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much more than a guide for the grieving, February 11, 2008

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Cathy J. Weinmann - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Living with Loss (Paperback)

This book by Dan Moseley reaches into a difficult place and helps you find your way out. It is a work that can help a reader make some sense of the losses and tragedies that we all face during our lives. But more than that, it offers something I have never seen before. "Living With Loss" offers suggestions for those who wish to be supportive to the person who has suffered the loss. It discusses, in very clear terms, what kind of actions and words might be offered to help your loved one get through their darkest times. Thanks, Dr. Moseley, for opening your life and sharing your thoughts, so that the rest of us might heal and help others to heal.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Open to It, January 27, 2008

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Jennifer R. Moore (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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I read this book not currently in a time of loss nor as a person of great identifiable faith, but simply in search of guidance for a friend. Inspired by its words, I sent it on to a woman I am close to who had just lost her father. I felt good about the gift & really believed that it would help, but there was more. I found that it spoke to me, even now in a happy time. I was able to look back on past losses without judgment & with a clear heart. I say take a chance on this book, it will stay with you forever.