"A conversation of loss, grief, fear, longing, and hope." - Dr. Charles Page, MD, author of A Spoonful of Courage Someone special is missing. Your heart is broken. The world is upside down. Everything is shaking. What is going on? How do you handle this? What's next? Your heart longs for safety, significance, and love. Your soul yearns for truth, certainty, and peace. You need hope. Real hope. Sure and certain hope. That's what this book is about. Multiple award-winning author, speaker, and grief specialist Gary Roe is a trusted voice in grief recovery who has been bringing hope and healing to wounded hearts for more than three decades. A former missionary, pastor, and hospice chaplain, Gary has walked with tens of thousands of souls through the painful valley of loss. In Hope in a World Gone Mad , Gary brings us into a conversation - a conversation of loss, pain, grief, fear, and hope. Here's why Gary wrote this book: "I'm deeply concerned by the loss, death, pain, and fear that I see around me. People are grieving as never before. People are scared. Terrified. I see it in their eyes and hear it in their voices. We need hope. I believe that the ultimate source of hope and love is God Himself. I wrote this book to share what I know and what I have. I have shared my heart - and hopefully that will connect with many other troubled hearts out there." If you’re looking for an in-depth analysis of the grief process, this book isn’t it. This book is about discovering hope - real hope, forever hope - amid terrible grief in a world gone crazy. This book is about finding God in loss, fear, and uncertainty. If any of the following describes you, chances are your heart will resonate with this book: You are grieving a deep loss and are open to hearing how a relationship with God can make a difference in your life and grief process. - You are religious but long for more in your spiritual life. - You are a Christian who is hurting and concerned about what's happening to and around you. - You are a Christian who is concerned for those around you and looking for ways to share love and hope. Everyday life is a war. Each day we wake up to a fierce battle raging in our own hearts and in the world around us. We need good, trustworthy companions for this exhausting journey. Perhaps Hope in a World Gone Mad can be such a companion for you. Let the conversation of hope begin. In Hope in a World Gone Mad , Gary invites his readers into a conversation on grief, God, and hope. The reader gets to listen in on a conversation, that honestly, we've all wanted to have regarding grief. So, grab a cup of coffee and listen in. - Dr. Troy Allen, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church, College Station Hope in a World Gone Mad is a different sort of book. Written as a personal conversation, Gary digs into the tough situation that grievers experience today - handling their own painful losses while dealing with an upside-down, fearful world. We need help and hope, and this book contains a lot of both. - Dr. Charles W. Page, MD, author of A Spoonful of Courage for the Sick and Suffering Gary Roe's new book, Hope in a World Gone Mad , helps us process through how we deal with loss in a broken world where things just seem to get worse. Presented in a conversational style, Gary walks a grieving individual through the realities of their pain, hurt, and confusion to a place of real hope and comfort. The chapters of this book are written in bite-sized pieces so a person can immerse themselves in this conversation as little or as much as that person desires. Gary has provided a clear path from hurt to hope for a person working through any type of loss. Anyone who reads Gary's book will appreciate the tenderness with which Gary moves us from despair to hope, from pain to peace, and from confusion to comfort. I highly recommend this book for the hurting and for those walking with others through the pain of loss. - Reggie Coe, Pastor and Chaplain, Grace Church, Wichita Falls, Texas Gary Roe's new book, Hope in a World Gone Mad , is a short read that I believe everyone who is walking the road of grief should read. This book is different from other books written by Gary in that instead of just giving the reader human wisdom and grief skills (which he does) Gary comes right to the point in showing the reader who their source is and where true peace in a time of loss comes from. As a Christian Pastor, I was delighted to read a book from an expert in the field of grief who shares some of the things I share with my church grief groups. I would highly recommend Hope in a World Gone Mad , I intend to see that Grief Groups I resource and lead will have a copy available for each participant. - Rev. Louie Lyon, Pastoral Care Pastor, Dove of the Desert United Methodist Church, Glendale, Arizona Hope In a World Gone Mad is a conversational book, personally and beautifully written. Gary explores and examines the world of grief and loss in a