Windows on Widowhood
By Jocelyn G. Murray
Highland Books. 157 pages.
ISBN 1 897913 22 2
It is a truism about Christian experience that what we know through Bible reading and meditation only comes alive and part of us when it is proven in the harsh reality of painful testing.
Windows on Widowhood works out that principle in and through the bereavement of a young New Zealand wife with children still around her. Jocelyn Murray's husband left his job to begin full-time Bible teaching ministry, only to be told that very day he had leukaemia with but a month or two to live.
Interwoven with her story of gradual discovery of the Lord's comfort and strengthening is a most helpful study of the three widows in the book of Ruth. This ensures that the book is not only relevant to young widows but also to those who are bereaved in later years. Two practical areas are especially useful, the handling of children in such an agonising situation, and the question of remarriage.
Because of the natural vulnerability of a young widow this book will be most helpful to women faced with such situations. However, there is plenty here for sorrowing men to receive with profit.
We warmly commend it.
