Grace for the Journey: Navigating back to the land of the living after tragedy, trauma or loss.

Through the darkness of her life after her husband's suicide, Athena C. Shack embarked on a journey to healing, wholeness and restoration. In this book, she answers the one question asked the most from others who are hurting:







How do you get your life back after a tragedy, trauma or loss has compromised your faith, destroyed your peace and shaken your confidence in God?







Using personal experience, biblical illustrations/revelations with an engaging and refreshing writing style this book will help you get through a dark place and grow spiritually from it. Grace for the Journey will help you navigate:



Your Place - Where you feel like no one understands what you are going through since your life has been turned upside down after the unthinkable happened to you.



Your Journey - While you are walking through turbulent terrain, challenged by the detours of life, you will be determined to fight your way back, discovering your purpose through your pain.



Your New Life - Victory for your life is in the plan of God and you shall walk back into the land of the living, healed and restored, thriving as a child of the living God.







Special Feature:



This book encourages and empowers readers by including practical tools as journey steps at the conclusion of each chapter: Confessions, Application, Prayer starters and Scripture Meditation.



These journey steps are ideal for personal reflection and for small group studies.







There comes a point in everyone's life where either you need to hold someone's hand in the dark, or be that hand in the dark. Grace for the Journey, is that warm hand that guides a hurting person back to the land of the living.

After her life changing experience following her husband's suicide, Athena C. Shack departed from her home in the East Coast and a 15 year long career in media and marketing to answer the calling God placed on her life. She is a licensed Minister of the Gospel with a Masters of Divinity degree, former grief recovery support group/workshop leader and Christian Educational ministry leader. Serving in her passion for the brokenhearted, she now uses her writing, teaching, preaching and prophetic gifts to encourage, inspire and heal the brokenhearted. Happily remarried, Shack resides in the South with her husband LeWinfred and their three children.