Book excerpt: While others celebrate, those who grieve may find the holidays a time when their misery intensifies. Many who have faced the holidays following the loss of a loved one have found comfort and hope in A Decembered Grief. Harold Ivan Smith brings us Journaling Your Decembered Grief to complement the illustrations and insights found in A Decembered Grief to encourage the griever, to acknowledge, and to reflect on the loss while embracing the hope of Christ.