Seasons of Sorrow

The Pain of Loss and the Comfort of God

By: Tim Challies

Narrated by: Tim Challies

Read by the author. Includes 10 bonus chapters exclusively included in the audiobook edition!

An honest look at grief and fears, faith and hope. Combining personal narrative, sound theology, and beautiful writing, this is a book for anyone who has loved and lost.

On November 3, 2020, Tim and Aileen Challies received the shocking news that their son Nick had died. A twenty-year-old student at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, he had been participating in a school activity with his fiancée, sister, and friends, when he fell unconscious and collapsed to the ground.

Neither students nor a passing doctor nor paramedics were able to revive him. His parents received the news at their home in Toronto and immediately departed for Louisville to be together as a family. While on the plane, Tim, an author and blogger, began to process his loss through writing.

In Seasons of Sorrow, Tim shares real-time reflections from the first year of grief—through the seasons from fall to summer—introducing readers to what he describes as the “ministry of sorrow.”

Seasons of Sorrow will benefit both those that are working through sorrow or those comforting others:

• See how God is sovereign over loss and that he is good in loss
• Discover how you can pass through times of grief while keeping your faith
• Learn how biblical doctrine can work itself out even in life’s most difficult situations
• Understand how it is possible to love God more after loss than you loved him before

©2022 Tim Challies (P)2022 Zondervan

Just the right book!

This book was everything I was looking for! It was as if he was reading my mind. Truthful and encouraging!

Destined to become a classic!

Wow! A must read for anyone who has experienced any grief or will in the future.

Excellent!!

This was so encouraging to my heart to hear how God can minister to those who are sorrowing.

Feelings of Loss understood

I am not an author. I am a mother of 6 who has lost two of her sons in their 20s. The boys were my sunshine boys. They were the light and life of our family. we have been left with sweet thinkers, helpers, and loving children. Each child is special and holds a place in the family and your heart different from the others. this book is amazing at walking through steps of grief and pain like no other book I have read on these horrific emotions. I also have been blessed by the way he can look at his future passing as a soon to be positive. I also see death as no longer frightening. Nothing can be done worse to me than what has already been done. I love this book. He truly writes my emotions. It is always reassuring to know you are not alone on this road. Blessing for all who are going through the pain of loss.

Thank you, Tim.

Our 7 month old daughter, Eden Rome, went to be with the Lord 1 month ago. We are in a similar season and have found this book so encouraging- I even read chapter 9 during her Celebration of Life service this past weekend. I look forward to meeting Nick one day-he sounds like such a great guy. Praying for continued comfort for your family.

Excellent

Every Christian needs to read this book! I’ve never seen the heaviness of grief handled in such a biblical way.

A hard, but peace-filled journey through grief

I'll be honest, this is a very hard listen/read. We will all face grief, and many of us already have. Many of us are dealing with significant grief right now. But for those of us who are parents, when that grief involves the unexpected loss of our kid or young adult, that grief takes on an entirely different type of form ... and it can be absolutely excruciating. So as a dad of four kids, including one teen girl and three young boys, this book ripped me up from the inside out. It struck fear into my heart at the prospective loss of one of my own kids, and it gave me all sorts of peace and comfort that I could find a way through it regardless, if ever that day comes that I lose one of my own kids so unexpectedly. Tim Challies as the narrator isn't necessarily dynamic in this book, as I wouldn't expect him to be, but he's honest, authentic, vulnerable, and I wouldn't have wanted to listen to this book being read by anyone else. This is his and his family's story, and by extension, God's story for them ... and there is absolutely no one else that could've communicated it as powerfully. I would 100% recommend this for anyone that's either walking through grief and trying to make sense of how God plays into that process, or even people (particularly Christians) that want to better walk through grief with someone else dealing with it.

there is hope in loss and suffering

Tim's writing of his journey of loss was a big encouragement to my heavy heart. God is faithful even in sorrow.

An amazing book.

An amazing book and an absolute must read or hear for anyone who has either experienced grief or ministers to those who have experienced it. I was moved to tears and uplifted simultaneously.

Great Book!

A must read for anyone who is going through time of sorrows or would like to be ready to help others.