Life After Breath: After Her Husband Takes His Last Breath, and After She Tries to Catch Hers (Morgan James Faith), by Susan VandePol
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“During those last few months, the pressure was something of another world and as earthly life wept, the bleeding of our hearts began to mingle with eternity and hovered in a strange vapor. There was no song to be heard; just the rhythm of waiting; and life held its breath.” “The truth of what is ahead for you must be found in God’s Word. You will see there that you are meant to be one of His greatest allies in these times of faint hearts and tribulation. As a widow, you have been called for a great and unique purpose.” The word “widow” carries with it the meaning of being severed; torn apart from what she was once one with. In Hebrew, it means “an empty house.” To be a widow also means to be prepared “apart” but God’s tender heart never meant for her to be isolated and crippled. Widows are prepared apart for a “set-apart” calling. Life After Breath is a warm and honest companion and friend in the midst of a widow’s darkness and seclusion, and sets in place the foundation for her future with insight into a sacred Biblical revelation that will take your breath away.
Life After Breath: After Her Husband Takes His Last Breath, and After She Tries to Catch Hers (Morgan James Faith), by Susan VandePol - Amazon Sales Rank: #351971 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-15
- Released on: 2015-05-15
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Life After Breath: After Her Husband Takes His Last Breath, and After She Tries to Catch Hers (Morgan James Faith), by Susan VandePol About the Author Susan VandePol founded Families of the Fallen for Fire Departments and churches after the duty-related death of her husband in 2005. The protocol is now being used in departments across the country and is endorsed by experts in the fields of Grief, Crisis, Trauma, Suicide Prevention, CIR, PTSD and CISM. Susan is certified in Grief, Crisis and Trauma Counseling, Grief Coaching, Master Life Coaching, Individual Crisis Intervention, Victim Response and Basic and Family Mediation. Her speaking engagements include women’s retreats and conferences, a Keynote at the ICISF World Congress and addressing the Honor Guard at the International Association of Firefighters Memorial. She homeschooled her 3 children without ever succumbing to pressure to wear Birkenstocks and now lives with her husband whom she shamelessly manipulated into falling in love with her. He obliged by sweeping her off her feet with a large broom. They now reside in Michigan.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Special special book By Bettie Oh my ! This book will hold you spellbound as the author shares her journey and that of her family as they endure the unthinkable, losing a father and husband to death. It is incredibly sad and yet encouraging and uplifting at the same time. She's been there. She knows the incredible challenges and what it does to the partner and family that are left behind. She has such insight and such a gift for being able to share it in an easily readable and understandable way. I have shared individual chapters with others and it has touched them deeply. I have bought extra copies to give away to friends who going through similar circumstances. I would recommend this to counselors and pastors and Hospice... to anyone about to go through, going through, or struggling with the aftermath of losing a loved one. I also recommend it to anyone just wanting to understand what a family member or friend is facing when this becomes a part of their life story. It is beautifully written and touches the heart in so many ways. I hope this is not her last book on any subject.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. a tongue that can be easily translated via a broken heart By Lori Neumann This author adeptly writes in an unique language, that I can only describe as "widow-speak'; a tongue that can be easily translated via a broken heart. From page one, I realized this book found me. Her story so intimately mirrors mine. Not only am I a widow, but I also lost my beloved to the same inferno called A.L.S. (Lou Gehrig's Disease). The parallels of her story left me amazed and unable to deny that she knows my furnace. There have been countless, informative books written about the universal and tragic experience of grief, but "Life After Breath" goes beyond the emergency of death and into the metaphorical "burn unit" of its recovering survivors. I would highly recommend it to all those, who are searching for relief in their grief. I am convinced that the balm of this book can comfort any "burn victim" wounded by any loss. My two favorite words, of this survival-kit-of-a-book, leapt off of page 8. "Love stays." Susan carefully nails this reality directly into each chapter and adroitly weaves this precious truth into every word picture she paints, as she explains that love is fireproof. She shares that her husband was a brave firefighter. It didn't take this reader long to realize that, on a spiritual level, she is also. Her Captain (God) has taught this gentle recruit a blazing truth and transformed this refined firefighter into a fire-writer. She writes about fighting fire with fire, and reminds us that our Superior is a consuming One.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Gospel Salve for an aching heart By Gaye Clark My review from the Gospel Coalition:http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/book-reviews-two-books-about-for-widowsIn 2001 doctors diagnosed Robert Ortega, a veteran firefighter of 22 years, with Lou Gehrig’s disease. For the next several years, he and his wife, Susan, lived with a death sentence. They watched Robert’s once-strong body weaken to complete helplessness. After one particularly rough night, Susan “just knew” that day would be her husband’s last. Their youngest son Ben, 13, tightened his grip on his dad’s arm and said, “It’s okay, dad. You fought long enough.”And with that, Robert Ortega took his last breath.Companion for WidowsIn Life After Breath: After Her Husband Takes His Last Breath, and After She Tries to Catch Hers, Susan Ortega VandePol chronicles her family’s journey through illness and loss, and her entry into widowhood. She calls the book a companion for widows. She hopes it enables widows to “look into grief and heal when others want to look away.”The 40 short devotional-style entries offer poignant details of her husband’s death and ooze with Scripture and word pictures that bring theological truth into technicolor view. With the precision and care of a brain surgeon, VandePol uses God’s Word to cut us at strategic points throughout.VandePol has certification in grief, crisis, and trauma counseling. But in reading Life After Breath, it’s not her certifications or educational qualifications that shine—it’s her intimate relationship with Christ and quiet trust that God’s not wasting her pain.While VandePol shares her pain with brutal honesty and vulnerability, she frames her suffering in the context of the gospel and offers purpose and hope to widows. “The truth of what is ahead for you must be found in God’s Word,” she says. “You will see there that you are meant to be one of his greatest allies in these times of faint hearts and tribulation.”Gospel SalveVandePol has a tenacious grip on the concept of grace, particularly in the way she remembers friends and family who “could not face” her husband’s diagnosis:They never came or called or sent a Hallmark sentiment, yet they loved him, and we recognized their love in the weight of their absence. Others might call them cowards or self-centered, but I thought of it as a type of courage. . . . So we loved them all no matter what and gave up the right to have an opinion about how they dealt with Bob’s illness or death.She also shows how life after Robert’s death brought additional burdens not always seen by others. After speaking with other widows, she identified common threads:We needed help in seemingly endless ways. . . . After the funeral and the first few months of love, calls, cards and meals, our grief increased in intensity, but it became increasingly difficult for others to continue to face our grief with us. We knew we were loved, but we didn’t even know what our needs would be; how could anyone else? Our churches, neighbors, friends, and firefighter family wanted to help and offered it without condition or exception, but to be a widow means a woman is now single, which puts her in a very vulnerable position.To that end, VandePol created Families of the Fallen, a protocol for those coming alongside a widow. Though initially written with families of firefighters in mind, it’s now being used by employers and churches around the country and has been endorsed by experts in the fields of grief, crisis, trauma, and suicide prevention.When my own husband, Jim, passed away, it seemed nearly every visitor offered me a book I “just had to read.” Most of these books put a heavy emphasis on “rejoicing in tribulation” and didn’t give me permission to grieve. Other books advised me to not spend too much time watching TV and to make sure I didn’t overindulge in spending or eating. And others simply presumed I faced widowhood as an elderly woman. Few offered me the gospel salve Life After Breath articulates and extends.Grief’s Desperate PrayersA word of caution: Sometimes the grief of widowhood leads to desperate prayers that might be unnerving to those unacquainted with it. VandePol’s pastor and close friend told her that, after much consideration, he “asked the God of the living and the dead to raise his friend from the dead. . . . Friendship’s love was torn in two, and he asked that God would make it right again and mend the tear.”Crazy prayer? Maybe. VandePol herself speaks of the days following her husband’s death when she visited his grave to finish the book they were reading together while he was alive. As she remembers the raw pain of that first week—with the cutout of the grass still freshly marking the place Robert was buried—she shares her prayer: “Lord, if you’ll raise him, I’ll dig him out.” She explains, “Grief churned so violently inside that, given the chance, I would have torn the earth apart myself to get him back.”Crazy indeed. This quickly took me back to the wee hours of the morning when my husband went into cardiac arrest. I walked out of the hospital room as my coworkers tried to come to his rescue. I looked up to heaven with an uplifted fist and said, “No, Lord. Not him, not now. You can’t do this.”Lasting HopeVandePol offers profound empathy to widows of any age and circumstance by pointing them to lasting hope in Christ. To the hurting woman who wants to know where God is in the midst of it all, VandePol’s answer is as gentle as it is confident: God abides with the hurting and broken.Many books for widows presume a lot about our circumstance and age. But Life After Breath isn’t that kind of book. It won’t advise you how to respond to your mother-in-law’s grief or whether or not you should sell your home.Instead, VandePol mines the lessons God taught her about his undying love through the death of her husband. Though each widow's story is unique, we all only find our ultimate healing in Christ. Some will see her eloquence lacking clarity, thus making her book hard to read quickly. But Life After Breath is not best read quickly—it’s best read slowly, thoughtfully, and more than once.
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