Building a Ministry of Comfort and Compassion

<I>For the first time in my life I finally see purpose for all I have endured with God's amazing Grace. I have a compassion for others who are hurting. Not necessarily just widows but all hearts. I have a sense about people that I can look into a crowd of faces and sense they are hurting. I do not know the hurt they are experiencing but I feel their hurt. I often speak to various groups about grief or other similar topics and I look across a room and can just feel the look on their faces by searching their hearts. I cannot explain it. Some often refer to it as the gift of discernment. I often refer to is a curse because after I experience that it drains me emotionally and physically. But I feel that God uses those times to keep me fresh and true to my feelings and where they come from in order to help others.</I></p><p>There is no handbook for women who suddenly find themselves on the downward spiral to widowhood. <I>Building a Ministry of Comfort and Compassion</I> isn't a guideline but a source of hope and encouragement on the journey into and through widowhood as experienced by author Elaine Cook.</p>