All Is Not Loss

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'This book makes a significant contribution to...[the] conversation about death and bereavement. Its subject is grief - not just the grief that arises from dying and death, but the grief that comes from others forms of loss, including partings, ageing, failures, [and ] regrets...Duncan MacLaren has seen too much to offer easy slogans and shallow comforts. He acknowledges the reality of pain and suffering ...Yet he has also experienced enough to come to the realisation that, in his words, "grief may visit us with unexpected gifts".' -- From the foreword by Ian Bradley 'MacLaren has written a life-affirming study that offers much of depth to those who have suffered loss. He explores grief in differing presentations, whether experienced privately, collectively, or even at a planetary level. Here we glimpse the braided interlace of grief and God. We glimpse the paradox of spiritual opening, by which even death can deepen life and our aliveness to it. This is a book that will be a friend to many who have suffered loss. It should be read by those who might be professionally involved whether as counsellors, chaplains, celebrants, or in other pastoral positions.' -- Alastair McIntosh 'Drawing on years of pastoral work and wide reading, Duncan MacLaren has written a deeply sane and humane account of the many different forms of grief. Beautifully steering its way through the platitudes that so often surround this difficult subject, All is Not Loss offers real, useful wisdom.' -- Joe Moran