Hold the Vein

About the book

Grief is a wound that keeps bleeding. You can hold it while He heals it.

When you lose someone you love, people tell you to be strong. They tell you time heals. But anyone who has sat in a dark room at two in the morning knows better. Grief doesn't follow a schedule, and willpower alone won't close the wound.

The title comes from a picture every one of us understands. When someone is bleeding, you don't wait. You apply pressure and hold the vein until help arrives. Hold the Vein is about doing exactly that with your grief, because the help has already arrived, and His name is Jesus. With scripture on every page, this book walks with you from the first raw night of loss toward the morning God has promised.

It was written for the grieving, for the strong ones who carried everybody else through the funeral and never got to mourn, and for the pastors, chaplains, and grief ministry leaders who care for them.

About the author

Sidney Jones

Sidney Jones spent more than 40 years as a broadcast engineer and engineering manager, keeping Houston radio on the air through every kind of storm and breakdown. He could fix almost anything with a schematic and a spare part. Grief taught him the difference between fixing and healing, and that healing belongs to One alone.

A Bible teacher and minister based in Houston, Texas, he now gives that same steady, hands-on care to people walking through loss. Hold the Vein is his invitation to bring the whole broken thing to the Great Physician.

Speaking, signings, and contact

Bring this word to your congregation

Sidney is scheduling book signings, speaking engagements, and grief ministry visits in the Houston area and beyond. If your church, GriefShare group, or care team would like him to come teach, sign books, or simply sit with your grieving members, reach out. A companion practice workbook is on the way.