Summary Of Facing Death, Finding Love By Dawson Church

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     Facing Death, Finding Love: The Healing Power of Grief and Loss in One Family’s Life was written by Dawson Church. 1994. 140p. Aslan Publishing. Dawson Church is a publisher, editor and author. Previous books he has authored or co-authored include The Heart of the Healer and Communing with the Spirit of Your Unborn Child. He works as CEO of Atrium Publishers Group – a book distributor- and lives with his wife and two children in Lake County, California.      Dawson Church starts out with his acknowledgments of appreciation to all the people that have supported him in the writing and publishing of this book. The introduction by Church’s editor, Hal Zina Bennett, Ph.D., reflects the truths …show more content…

In this case, it is signified through the birth of Montague’s dead body. When holding Montague’s dead body in his arms, Church’s thought expresses that he had never seen death this close before. He had certainly never touched death. He thinks that if anyone, a few hours before, had told him that he would wish to touch the body, he would have denounced them as having an unhealthy and morbid fascination with death. Yet he knew that he needed to be fully within this experience with death, rather than pushing it away from him. Church’s thoughts also has served as the purpose to express the very common way of how most people in the world are looking at death although it is an everyday occurrence that happens everywhere.      Chapter four – Friends, Enemies and Children – serves as the purpose to remind us to be patient, caring, loving, and understanding of our partner and our children even when they may act like our enemy. It’s worth to know that through thick and thin, through good and bad time, we’ll be ready to help each other successfully overcome the pain and grief that bring by …show more content…

He believes that at any point, we can choose because love calls us whenever someone dies. Love calls when we are hurt, disappointed, angry or confused. He says that we can cling to our confusion, hurt, disappointment, anger or fear, but we can also surrender into the welcoming arms of love. He believes that if we don’t learn the spiritual lessons that death brings, they will be presented to us again and again just as if it knocks in the form of a cold and we don’t listen, it may knock again in the form of influenza. If we still don’t hear, it may knock as double pneumonia. This lesson teaches us to be aware of love when it comes knocking on our door the very first time because it may come in disguise as death, or perhaps death is simply a disguise for love.      Afterword, Montague’s death continues to teach us lessons. It showed us that soul and body, spirit and earth are inextricably intertwined. It taught us that no experience lies outside the container of the womb of love, not even the finality of physical death. With this understanding, Church believes that there is nowhere he can go in life without feeling the angels with him. He suggests that all we have to do is open our hearts and listen in each moment, and we will know that this is

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