I truly enjoyed reading this book. It is a honest expression of Nicholas' mourning his 25 year old son's death. This book helps one understand more of what a person is going through who has lost such a close person to them. His grief is raw as he writes what life is like, the whole Eric left in his life, lamenting what could have been. I do recommend this book because we all grieve, we all lose people to death, so we all mourn together. Here are some good quotes from this book:
"I shall look through the world through tears. Perhaps I shall see things that dry-eyed I could not see."
"It means not forgetting him. It means speaking of him. It means remembering him. Remembering: one of this profoundest features of the Christian and Jewish way of being-in-the-world and being-in-history is remembering. "Remembering," "do not forget," "do this in remembrance." We are to hold the past in remembrance and not let it slide away. For in history we find God."
"To comfort me, you have t come close. Come sit beside me on my mourning bench."
"God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers."
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