Ronald J. Greer

This volume offers a timely look at the important topic of integrity. What does integrity mean? What does it involve? How do we "do" integrity? Drawing on his experience as a Christian, a minister, and a pastoral counselor, Ronald J. Greer explores the two sides of integrity: personal integrity and moral integrity. Personal integrity involves an integrated life, where we are in harmony with ourselves, while moral integrity reflects the evolution of the word, as the idea of morality and ethics merged with the concept of wholeness Perfect for the graduate or as a gift for anyone at a key turning point in their lives, this small book provides the insight and guidelines that will become the touchstones for a good, well-lived life.

This is a book on grief, but it's really about hope. The personal story of the loss of the author's child draws readers in to the therapeutic, healing part of the book. This book's aim is to help persons who are grieving understand that there is some process to grief, though it may be different for every individual who experiences it, and to help the mourner along on the journey, through pain to hopeful fulfillment. In the author's words, "Grief permeates most of [the grieving person's] waking moments and all of their lives. The power of that emotion needs to be honored by fully experiencing it and giving it a voice. This is a new and frightening experience for most. I seek to walk them through this using both my background as a pastoral counselor and my experience of grief following the death of our younger son...This [book] is a Christian message about the hope that can be found at the far side of that journey...I am writing to someone who is in pain as one who has been there and knows of the experience."