Hold It Gently

he was their late-born joy - the treasure of a busy, blessed house, adored by four older children and a grandmother who knew, better than anyone, the worth of an ordinary golden hour.

And then, in a single careless moment on an ordinary afternoon, she was gone.

Hold It Gently is the story of a Christian family walking through the deepest valley a family can know - the loss of a child - and of the long, dark road back to the light. For grief does not come alone. It brings the whisper of "if only" in the black middle of the night; the secret self-blame each heart carries and cannot speak; and an ancient enemy who means to use it all to pull a loving family apart. But it also brings the God who never leaves - who meets the broken at the very bottom, empties them of themselves, and fills them with a love and a peace the untroubled years could never give.

Tender, honest, and shining with hard-won faith, this is not a book that explains grief from the outside. It is a companion for the valley - the hand of one who has walked it too, held out to you in the dark - and a testimony that though weeping may endure for a night, joy truly does come in the morning.