When I Had to Let You Go: Finding the Shepherd through Five Stages of Grief

When I Had to Let Go: Finding the Shepherd Through the Five Stages of GriefGrief does not move in a straight line, and healing does not mean forgetting.In When I Had to Let Go, Gayla Rogers shares the deeply personal journey of losing her mother and learning to recognize the Good Shepherd even in the darkest places of grief.Organized around the five stages of grief-denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance-this Christian devotional explores the emotions that often follow the death of someone we deeply love. Through honest stories of hospital rooms, final goodbyes, empty chairs, unanswered phone calls, treasured belongings, difficult anniversaries, and the ordinary moments when grief unexpectedly returns, Gayla reminds readers that faith and sorrow can exist together.Each devotional combines personal experience with biblical encouragement, KJV Scripture, reflection, and prayer. Rather than offering simple answers for profound loss, the book gently points grieving hearts toward the One who remains present when everything familiar has changed.When I Had to Let Go is especially written from the perspective of a daughter grieving her mother, but its message reaches anyone learning to live after the loss of someone they love.This is not a book about "getting over" grief. It is about walking through it-sometimes confidently, sometimes tearfully, and sometimes one small step at a time-with the assurance that the Shepherd is still beside you.Because even when you have to let go of someone you love, you never have to walk through grief alone.