In Reclaiming Joy, Ella Wall Prichard invites you into her honest, courageous, and vulnerable journey of rediscovering a life filled with meaning and purpose after the death of her husband. Her profound insights will inspire and encourage you to find joy again regardless of the pain and losses on your own journey.
~Jimmy Dorrell, Co-founder and Executive Director, Mission Waco
'Joy comes with the morning,' the psalmist says, after the night of mourning. In Reclaiming Joy, Ella Wall Prichard teaches us something else that is only learned in the crucible of grief and loss. Joy that comes with the morning is only possible by seeking joy in the mourning.
~George Mason, Senior Pastor, Wilshire Baptist Church
Open. Honest. Compelling. Ella Wall Prichard’s journey through grief to acceptance to finding joy will give widows everywhere the confidence to believe that life can be good again. By telling her story, she offers hope to those in despair, encouragement to those feeling overwhelmed, and wisdom for those unsure of the next steps. A rich, practical, insightful read that invites every widow to choose life.
~Rev. Dr. Gary W. Klingsporn, Senior Minister, First Congregational Church, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Ella Prichard is a courageous and insightful steward of grief who has produced a profound and uplifting book on joy. Her subtitle calls this book 'a primer for widows,' but it imparts wisdom for all who grieve the passing of someone they loved deeply.
~Marv Knox, Field Coordinator, Fellowship Southwest, Coppell, Texas
Ella Prichard has given us a gift in her deeply personal account of widowhood. In her new book, Reclaiming Joy, she lays the framework, through the book of Philippians, to experience God’s presence and provision in times of grief and loss. It is at once practical, honest, hopeful, and encouraging. Reclaiming Joy is a beautiful chronicle of the strength, wisdom, and maturity that comes from enduring times of loss.
~Elizabeth Head Black, author of Hand in Hand: Walking with the Psalms through Loneliness
After forty-six years of marriage, Ella suddenly found herself widowed and thrust into a life she did not choose. Reclaiming Joy is an account of one brave woman's ability to navigate the most difficult journey of her life and help others who are trying to do the same. It is a one-step-at-a-time guide, resource and affirmation of the hope that you can, one day, find your own joy.
~Jackie Baugh Moore, Vice President, Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation
A focused look at widowhood, this book is drenched in honesty and wise insights as [Ella] continues to move through stages of grief while adapting to new realities. These are experiences and discoveries worth sharing with fellow travelers who face such a reality now--or will in the near future.
~John D. Pierce, Nurturing Faith Journal & Bible Studies
In Reclaiming Joy, Prichard untangles the spaghetti on the widow’s plate, compartmentalizes each topic and examines her grief while presenting a touching yet practical guideline offering hope for a positive outcome for any widow navigating her own loss.
~Ted Talley, Her Magazine
An exceptional, deftly written, impressively informative, and thoroughly 'user friendly' practical in organization and presentation, Reclaiming Joy: A Primer for Widows should be brought to the attention of any newly widowed woman and ought to be a part of every community library collection dealing with the sensitive subject of Death & Dying.
~Helen Dumont, The Midwest Book Review
