After the Ashes
A 30-Day Devotional for Rebuilding Your Life After Loss
When loss burns through the life you knew, rebuilding can feel impossible, and even prayer may seem out of reach.
About the Book
After the Ashes is a 30-day devotional for anyone beginning again after grief, divorce, hardship, or a change they never saw coming. Each day pairs a passage of Scripture with a short, heartfelt reading and a Reflection prompt for your own thoughts. The days unfold across four movements that follow the slow, unhurried work of healing.
Leah Stirewalt has been widowed twice and is raising four adopted children on her own. She doesn’t offer tidy answers or easy clichés. Instead, she writes as a friend who has sat in the ashes herself, found God near in places she never expected, and watched Him begin to bring beauty from what was lost.
You don’t have to rush, and you don’t have to be fine. You only need to open the first page.
Inside, You’ll Find …
30 days of Scripture
each paired with a short, heartfelt reading
A daily Reflection prompt
with space for your own thought
Honest encouragement
from a friend who has sat in the ashes herself
Hope for beginning again
after grief, divorce, hardship, or a change you never saw coming
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The Four Movements
that follow the slow, unhurried work of healing
The Ashes
(days 1-7)
The Long Dark
(days 8-14)
First Embers
(days 15-21)
Rebuilding
(days 22-30)
What Readers Are Saying
About Leah
Leah lives with her four youngest, adopted children in the foothills of Western North Carolina. In addition to those four, she is also a mom and bonus mom to five adult “children,” a grandma to four precious cuties, and is expecting another.
As a Christ-follower, she takes the command to care for orphans and widows seriously. She writes on her Substack, After the Ashes, where she often shares pieces from her own widow journeys—yes, plural, as Leah was twice widowed before age 45. Now a solo parent of four former orphans, she’s learned firsthand how deeply God cares for orphans and widows.
Leah speaks at women’s events nationwide. She was also honored to share her story in Liberia, Africa, and Ecuador’s Andes Mountains.
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