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Loss doesn't always announce itself with a funeral. Sometimes it arrives as a half-built dream home, a marriage stretched to its edges, or a hospital room where faith and heartbreak share the same breath. In Protected by Loss, Dr. LaBentria Ford traces the grief that quietly layered throughout her life - the sudden death of her beloved brother Junior, the slow unraveling of a marriage she had to stop idealizing before she could truly love, and a dream home that collapsed in her hands. Through it all, she held onto her faith - not because it was easy, but because it was the only thing that made sense of the senseless. This book is for anyone who has ever held grief in one hand and faith in the other and wondered if God was paying attention. Dr. Ford's answer is unflinching: He was. He is. And what felt like loss was protection the whole time. Protected by Loss is a memoir of becoming - honest, tender, and rooted in the belief that what God allows, He redeems.

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As professional Black Christian women, we are goal-oriented, faithful, and strong. But inside that strength and faithfulness, we hide when things don't go as planned. When the person you love most goes to heaven. When the picture-perfect life you disciplined yourself to build comes crashing down. When the path you carved hits a dead end. Protected by Loss is the book that finds you exactly where you are. It gives you language for grief you never named - the death of a person, the death of a dream, the death of who you thought you'd be by now. It will help you acknowledge your loss, lean into God for healing, and trust that He wastes nothing. - Dr. Erin Wheeler, Publisher, Ashe Publishing As someone navigating the loss of a mother - alongside many of the other losses Dr. Ford writes about - I resonated with this book immediately. Dr. Ford's poetic voice and spiritual depth speak directly to your soul while keeping both feet on the ground. This is not a book about having the right answers. It is a book about having the right anchor. - Dr. Candice Jackson, Editor, Ashe Publishing

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