This earthly plane offers much for us to learn: happiness, wisdom, loss, heartbreak, and enlightenment. It is a Pandora’s box of emotions, situations, opportunities, and failures, all wrapped into a package we call life. Nobody is immune, but everyone has the opportunity to grow tall or wither like a flower in harsh light. It’s completely up to us how we choose to respond. Finding Hope in the … in the Darkness of Grief is a gleaning of insights from artist Diamante Lavender. For her, life has been a long, difficult road, but it has taught many poignant lessons. Her poetry collection is an exploration of the human soul, a traversing of situations that life throws at us. Diamante has always been intrigued by the ability to overcome and move on to bigger and better things.
She writes to encourage hope and possibility in those who read her stories. If she can help others heal, as she has, then Diamante’s work as an author and artist will have been well spent. She believes that everyone should try to leave a positive mark on the world, to make it a better place for all. Writing is the way that she is attempting to leave her markone story at a time.
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Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief: Spiritual Insights Expressed Through Art, Poetry and Prose by Diamante Lavendar is a beautiful collection of poetry, art, and prose that addresses many of life’s moments. From grief to staying positive, Lavendar has a knack for looking at emotions and making them meaningful. Just about every other page contains beautiful art that calms the mind, and the lyrical poetry inspires you to look inward, shore yourself up and go on. Everyone experiences love and loss, and this multi-layered collection will resonate with many. The author has a way of connecting her personal experiences to anyone who might read this book. You will relate to and understand her pain, while perhaps healing your own. Highly recommend.
‘Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief’ is an easy to read and gentle spiritual offering from the author. Consisting solely of her art and poetry, which are glimpses into her struggles in life, this book is a haven of tranquil thought, reflection and teaching.
Lavendar has an almost childlike innocence that shines though this book. Her belief that grief can be our teacher and that we can learn important lessons through suffering is proudly displayed throughout. This book is a timely reminder that we can find positives despite and as a result of emotional pain, making us more empathic to others. Lavendar is a survivor of bereavement grief and with this book she uses that as a gift to uplift others in times of need.
This book has an emotional depth that rivals the oceans. It’s hard not to find a message in this book that speaks to you, and Lavender lets us into her mind and heart to go on this adventure. This invitation puts us at the helm of multiple pieces, and we find ourselves weathering some rough storms as we sail across the pages. It’s hard to write a detailed review of this due to it being a collection, but I will say that there is something in her for everyone. The book starts off with poetry (a poem about loss, actually), and progresses from there (you’ll get a good mix of images, prose, poems, and more in this book).
This heartfelt collection of observations and beliefs by Diamante Lavendar is a collection of her artwork and creative writing. She shares photography, illustration and prose/poetry that explore her inner feelings and emotions. Her daughter died at age 18 and Diamante’s wish is to extend the strength that she has found confronting her grief and pain, through the sharing of her words and images. She simply offers intimate bite-sized thoughts for readers to gain inspiration and hope from, allowing us to take in one at a time, dip in and out or take our time and indulge in more. I particularly liked Diamante’s black and white photographs; I found them intriguing and equally as thought-provoking as her writing. I recommended Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief as a spiritual pick-me-up for anyone seeking comfort.
Taking into account, the raw and emotional delivery of this book,
it can be said, it took my breath away. It is by no small feat,
“Finding Hope in the Darkness of Grief” by Diamante Lavendar,
truly can help in the effort of finding you hope. If empathy is
defined as sharing in the feelings of others, Lavendar’s prose
mixed with her insight into the recovery process will give way to
discovering from a time of weakness, strength. What can the
process of grieving yield? Understanding and comfort. Free verse
poems, prose, and an overwhelming sense of self-revelation.