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    To Date or Not To Date: Guidelines for Christian Widows and Widowers
    To Date or Not To Date: Guidelines for Christian Widows and Widowers
    To Date or Not To Date: Guidelines for Christian Widows and Widowers
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    To Date or Not To Date: Guidelines for Christian Widows and Widowers

    By Gail Peterson

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    Gail Peterson of The Widow's Peek compiled this booklet in response to the many questions widowed men and women ask her and her new husband, Mike, about dating after losing a spouse. This little booklet is packed with Scriptures regarding grief/healing and singleness/remarriage. It also offers practical information such as recognizing the warning signs of scammers on Internet sites, getting to know the 'real' person one's dating, and how to consider adult children and assets in a remarriage.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGail Peterson
    Release dateDec 13, 2011
    ISBN9781465950451
    To Date or Not To Date: Guidelines for Christian Widows and Widowers
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    Gail Peterson

    I am an ex-school teacher, a mother and grandmother who believes in the magic of books. I also believe that books can help a child get over certain fears and face life with a more positive attitude and better sense of self worth. I live in Northern California with my greyhound Duke and my special needs Doberman, Lottie. These two have taught me how important it is to face your fears to move forward in life.

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      To Date or Not To Date - Gail Peterson

      To Date or Not To Date—Guidelines for Christian Widows and Widowers

      Gail Ruth Peterson

      Copyright 2011 by Gail Ruth Peterson

      Smashwords Edition

      To Date or Not To Date…

      A Guideline for Christian Widows & Widowers

      We’d like to begin by describing our own dating experience after the loss of our spouses. While we credit God’s amazing orchestration in bringing us together, a worthy writing in and of itself to the right audience, our point in telling our story is in the hopes that you will relate to some of our experiences. We also hope our story will encourage everyone to seek God’s plan above the desire to fill voids and caves of loneliness. Our stories also set the stage for the dating experience by sharing things we learned and took with us into the dating journey—considering aspects of dating that every Christian needs to consider.

      A few months after Vinnie passed away I was sitting at a traffic light and saw a solider drive by in uniform. I remember asking the Lord, Would I miss Vinnie with the same deep sadness if he weren’t dead but was instead deployed and I was home knowing he’d return home one day? Would it hurt the same? Would I be just as sad? No sooner did I ask these things did I get my answer. "Gail, you don’t have the picture right. He is Home. You are still deployed. Fight the good fight for I [God] still have things for you to do here until it’s time for you also to come Home.

      In contrast, I often thought of my mother-in-law who was widowed for over 30 years. She remained a widow during those years, vowed to remain dressed in black for the rest of her life. She carried her husband’s picture with her where ever she went,

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