Into a Reluctant Sunrise : A Memoir (Missional Wisdom Library: Resources for Christian Community)

She sat on the driveway, asphalt cold and rough under her fingers, watching the sun come up. What happens after the unthinkable happens? The sun comes up. Again and again and again. Stillbirth is a numbing reality for thousands of families each year, andwhen Andrea L. Lingle?s fourth child stopped moving one October day, she found herself living through just such a reality. Grief is a thoroughgoing despoiler. Nothing, from faith to family, is untouched by the immensity of grief. This is the story of a mother?s journey into stillbirth, into grief, into a reluctant sunrise.