title: For the Love of HER Life - Autumn Edition:: Daily Devotions for this season of your life by the Writing Team of aNew Season Ministries
author:  Elizabeth Dyer 
description: <span>We've talked about placing a devotionalbook in the hands of widows since the start of A Widow's Might in 2009 and well into the birth of our umbrella ministry, aNew Season. Finally--here it is. When I think of all the ladies not yet online now being able to access these writings, my heart melts.</span><br /><br /><span>I picture</span><b>For the Love of Her Life</b><span>, our book of daily devotions, as a night-table book. One that perhaps someone got for her as a gift of love, knowing how much she is hurting. And at first it sits next to her, unopened.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>Until at some point, she's up late at night and needs to hear from other widows. Finally she'll pull it from her night table to begin reading, letting the comfort of Christ wash over her.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>These daily devotionals come straight from our website. They have been proven over the years to bring comfort--the kind that lasts beyond the feel-good hug or reassuring smile, because they bring the comfort of God's Truth. </span><br /><br /><span>aNew Season Ministries ministers in the trenches of grief and beyond grief into vicotrious living through a walk with Christ. For the widow, when it seems no one else understands because they haven't lived it, anewseason.net is just a click away and able to minister to her.</span><br /><span></span><br /><span>We pray that this devotional becomes a way for a widow's friends and famiy to reach out to her. How many times have I been asked to mentor a widow, speak to her--tell her her life isn't over. How many times have a widow's loved ones begged me to let her know that she has purpose and there are healthy ways to deal with grief?</span><br /><br /><span>And I do. And so do all the writers on our team. </span><br /><br /><span>But what about the widow who hasn't physically come across our path? </span><br /><br /><span>This devotional book can be given to her right there when the loss is fresh. It's like giving her a whole network of many women who have successfully navigated grief--women of many ages and situations with one thing in common--the knowledge that Christ is the answer to healing. </span><br /><br /><span>When the funeral is done and everyone's gone home, she will eventually find herself in that place--face to face with her solitude. That's when her friends and family will want this devotional, written by many, to comfort her. As she reads through story after story, she'll get it. She's not alone. Many have walked before her--joyfully.</span><br /><br /><span>We've decided to publish these devotionals in three month seasonal cycles. We have enough for a year long daily devotional, but to publish it in one book would make for a large book unless we abridged the writers' work or made the font so small it would become hard to read. </span><br /><br /><span>We pray you or your loved one will be blessed by these writings and hope to engage with you at our conferences or online at anewseason.net</span><br /><br /><span>God bless you!</span><br /><br /><span>Kit Hinkle</span>
zlib_text: Table of Contents
  Title Page
  Dedication
  Acknowledgments
  chapter 1
  chapter 2
  chapter 3
  chapter 4
  chapter 5
  chapter 6
  chapter 7
  chapter 8
  chapter 9
  chapter 10
  chapter 11
  chapter 12
  chapter 13
  chapter 14
  
  chapter 15
  chapter 16
  chapter 17
  chapter 18
  chapter 19
  chapter 20
  chapter 21
  chapter 22
  chapter 23
  chapter 24
  chapter 25
  chapter 26
  chapter 27
  chapter 28
  chapter 29
  chapter 30
  chapter 31
  About the Author
  Copyright Page
  
  For Michael,
  who taught me
  how to love
  
  Acknowledgments
  To my family for their immense love and support—
  To Mila, sounding board, driver, friend, rock—
  To Sian and Paul for your friendship and
  for being the first to read this book—
  To Keerthi and Yasa for the late-night tea and information—
  To Rose Billington and Helen Allen at the Wylie Agency
  for helping make this happen—
  My gratitude and love.
  
  chapter 1
  IT RAINED THE DAY LIZZIE WAS BORN. NOT THE GENTLE
  BENEDICTION God showers on newborn babies, but a screaming,
  sheeting downpour that turned the neatly mown lawns into 