On Grieving the Death of a Father

by Harold Ivan Smith

Book Overview

Not many books have been written to help the grieving son or daughter deal with the new reality of a deceased father. Smith has combined personal stories from Frederick Buechner, Norman Vincent Peale, Corrie ten Boom, James Dobson, and many other well- known people to help others through their grieving process.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080662714X
• ISBN13: 9780806627144
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

This book was a godsend.

It was comforting to read how someone else felt when their father died. I was not alone. My grief was not strange, and I found hope that it would not always hurt as much as it did in the recent weeks and months after my father died. I bought this book for a friend of mine whose father just died, hoping it will help him as much as it did me. I will always miss my father, but this book confirmed that I am not alone. There is comfort in knowing so many others feel what I've felt and understand.

A must read for anyone who lost their father.

This book helped me in the most difficult time of my life. When my father passed away I was looking for a lot of answers to many questions and this book helped me in that regard. I have bought this book five times because I keep giving it out when someone close to me loses their father. Everyone seems to get a lot out of it. For those who have just lost their father my heart goes out to you because you now know the feelings that come with such a loss and I hope reading this book helps. God Bless

Finding Peace

I lost my father very suddenly two months ago. For a seemingly healthy man to go like that, I was devastated.As a nurse it was even harder to accept than it was as a daughter. My husband brought this book to me about a week after his death,along with another equally helpful book. For some reason I found myself coming back to this one to read over and over. I sent copies to both of my siblings. To say that this book brought me peace would be the best way to describe my feeling whenever I started to read it. Thank you for putting my feelings into words to help me cope as well as validate the emotional rollercoaster that I am still riding.

Help for the Hurting

My father died in 1992, I had many thoughts and feeling that I still had not dealt with when I found Harold Ivan Smith's book on grief. As I read the book it comforted me and let me know that I was not alone in what I was feeling, that many others had felt the same way and that I would be able to get through and survive. No matter how or when your father died or what kind of relationship you had with him, in my opinion this book can help you. I am buying several copies of it now, to give to a friend, who's husband has just died and she doesn't know how to help her children. This book will help her.

A great help in the grieving process

I found this book about a year after my Dad died and wish I'd found it sooner. I am buying it for all of my siblings.The book is in 5 parts - The Passing, The Burying, The Mourning, The Remembering, From Now Till Eternity. Each part begins with the author's recollections of his experiences and thoughts following his father's death, then recollections of others, then quotations, scriptures and hymns to comfort. Anyone who needs to feel they are not alone in this process will surely appreciate this book. So many passages hit home directly. It was hard to read this in public, though, as it brought me to tears so many times.I would higly recommend it to anyone who has lost or is in the process of losing a father.