While reading Don't Lose Heart! A Widows Guide to Growing Stronger, you may be looking for a place to organize and process your feelings and thoughts about this new grief journey. This journal provides you with a place to do that.

As you record your study notes, meeting notes, and further reflections in this book, you will find that your insight and understanding will continue to progress and expand. The benefit of

journaling in this companion book is cumulative. As one thought builds upon another, it will lead to further observation, contemplation, and reflection.

Authors Mary Beth and Linda were friends long before they lost their husbands. God prepared them to walk this grief journey together and then help other widowed people, by sharing the

lessons they have learned and the comfort they have received from God.

We hope that this journal will help you along your road to a new life. There are brighter days ahead as you walk together with a healing community through this book study. Mary Beth and Linda can personally attest that by doing so, you too will receive God's healing.

"The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day" (Proverbs 4:18 NIV).