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elizastiles's review
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief
Minor: Death of parent and Gun violence
aebooksandwords's review
4.0
It’s a rare thing to find someone who will take enough time to simply sit with you and listen. Because of this, we often refrain from sharing the hardest parts of our days, our stories, our trials. We want someone to give their full attention, but that doesn’t happen in most passing moments of conversation.
“Can You Just Sit With Me?” shares the story of author Natasha Smith’s own need for someone to just be there and listen as she faced grief and loss. She extends an invitation to us in our own grief to discover our ever present God is always there with us. She also invites those who want to love those who are grieving to learn from what she shares in the book.
Each chapter shares some of the author’s story and lots of helpful thoughts about grief from both the Bible and experts on the subject. At the end of each chapter is a helpful exercise to use for dealing with grief.
My favorite thing about this book was the author’s conversational, down-to-earth writing style. It felt like sitting with a close friend having meaningful, healing conversation.
Some highlights:
“If in grief you and I can somehow remember that God is love, it can change the perspective about how you may feel about him during the grief process. Because God is love, everything that he does is motivated by love.”
“All humans share a core need to be understood. We want someone—at minimum—to acknowledge the pain. God understands far more than we can understand about what we go through.”
Thank you to IVP for gifting me a copy of this book. I am leaving this review voluntarily and was not required to leave a positive review. All opinions are my own.
“Can You Just Sit With Me?” shares the story of author Natasha Smith’s own need for someone to just be there and listen as she faced grief and loss. She extends an invitation to us in our own grief to discover our ever present God is always there with us. She also invites those who want to love those who are grieving to learn from what she shares in the book.
Each chapter shares some of the author’s story and lots of helpful thoughts about grief from both the Bible and experts on the subject. At the end of each chapter is a helpful exercise to use for dealing with grief.
My favorite thing about this book was the author’s conversational, down-to-earth writing style. It felt like sitting with a close friend having meaningful, healing conversation.
Some highlights:
“If in grief you and I can somehow remember that God is love, it can change the perspective about how you may feel about him during the grief process. Because God is love, everything that he does is motivated by love.”
“All humans share a core need to be understood. We want someone—at minimum—to acknowledge the pain. God understands far more than we can understand about what we go through.”
Thank you to IVP for gifting me a copy of this book. I am leaving this review voluntarily and was not required to leave a positive review. All opinions are my own.
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