A review by lighthousebooks
We Shall All Be Changed: How Facing Death with Loved Ones Transforms Us by Whitney K. Pipkin

5.0

𝙒𝙚 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝘽𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙 is one of those books that everyone needs to read. It’s not only for someone walking through the valley of the shadow of death with a loved one. This book is for everyone who has breath for the reality is that it eventually ends until the day that death is finally conquered. If you are not experiencing the pain of losing a loved one, this book is helpful for understanding what others go through to learn how to compassionately minister to them 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚. Whitney Pipkin was very vulnerable and open and I think it benefits us all. Two years ago I visited a friend frequently, first at the hospital, then in hospice care. I learned so much from this experience and still miss my friend so much. She was a believer and she is with Jesus, but 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙛𝙖𝙞𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙚 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙠 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝. We should all want to live. No matter our age and stage. We may enter into that time when we recognize that the end is near, but it is natural to fight it and it is natural to want to live even though we know as believers that Jesus is who we will be with in the end. Too often this platitude of everything is good because your loved one will be or is with Jesus is offered up as a means to mask the pain of death. Grief is real, the need to lament is real, for those who are left behind. Thank you Whitney for this book. 

“Something deep inside us longs for more than this world offers. Yet our bodies and minds intuitively fight death, the mode of deliverance from this life to the next.”

“For the Christian, death is a paradox. It is a great enemy of all the life we currently know. And it is sweet deliverance from all that is hard in this life into the very presence of God.”