A Grace Disguised by Jerry Sittser
Week 13: Epilogue — Reflections Years Later
Read the Epilogue of A Grace Disguised (added to the revised edition).
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Sittser writes the epilogue from a vantage point of years — and what he finds there is both sobering and deeply hopeful.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.In the epilogue, Sittser writes from a significant distance from the accident — years of life, his children grown, his own life reshaped in ways he could not have predicted. What has surprised him most about the long arc of grief? What has he learned that he could not have known at the time?
2.He reflects on the ways his children have grown — shaped by their losses and by the family life they built together in the aftermath. What does their story tell us about resilience and about the power of a parent's faithfulness?
3.Sittser also reflects on what remains the same — on the losses that are still losses, the absence that has not been filled. What does it mean that grief can be genuinely integrated and yet still genuinely present? Is that hopeful or sobering to you — or both?