A Personal Grief: Finding Faith Through Loss (Window of Opportunity)

A Personal Grief: Finding Faith Through Loss is the first book in N. E. Kurz’s Window of Opportunity Trilogy—a heartfelt and thought-provoking exploration of grief, spiritual questioning, and the search for truth after profound loss.
When tragedy strikes—whether through the death of a child, personal trauma, or natural disaster—our body, soul, and spirit may be knocked down by a pain we feel incapable of surviving. Such loss often causes us to re-evaluate everything, including our religious convictions. For some, grief may strengthen faith; for others, it can provoke a spiritual crisis. Even those with deep religious roots may suddenly question what once felt certain. Agnostics, too, may find themselves confronting doubt with new urgency.
In A Personal Grief, N. E. Kurz turns to this experience of sorrow as a call to deeper reflection. Drawing from the loss of her daughter, Karen, Kurz shares how personal tragedy awakened her need to search for objective truth. Miraculously, that search led her to answers, to faith, and to a calling to write. Through this book, she seeks to help others move through both the temporal and spiritual dimensions of healing.
Part One tells the story of Karen’s death and Kurz’s own awakening to faith. Part Two offers practical guidance for those facing emotional and physical recovery: shock and denial, emotional pain, depression, panic, guilt, anger, health issues, and life changes. It also addresses the spiritual challenges that often accompany grief—barriers to faith, the struggle to believe, and the need for honest questioning in a culture that often discourages it.

This book is a compassionate guide for anyone seeking to recover from grief while honestly wrestling with questions of faith, meaning, and Ultimate Reality.

N. E. Kurz graduated from American Christian College, Oklahoma City, with a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical studies. She is the author of four other books and lives with her husband in Southwest Missouri.