Forgiving...

When we forgive we ease the wounds inflicted by the past and exchange our agitation and pain for the quietude of peace. read more »

Wisdom and Insight

God directs our mind and actions in many ways when we pray for wisdom and insight. read more »

Searching, Seeking

When we're seeking rather than searching, we're about something deep and intentional. read more »

God With Us

God is with us as we grieve - as we remember, as we memorialize, as we live a life of rich, unbroken heritage in the love of those now lost to us in death. read more »

Unison

There's perhaps no experience in all of life more atonal than grief. read more »

Our Saints in Circulation

On All Saints' Day we pause for a quiet moment of reflection - to remember, honor, and give thanks for the saints in our lives. read more »

Crossroad

When we begin the journey through grief we look up one day from our pain and sorrow and find we're on a new path in life. read more »

Intermittent Grief

We experience intermittent grief because we don't just put our emotions aside for once and all time. read more »

Grief Fatigue

The almost surreal fatigue of mind, body, and spirit that engulfs us when one we love dies often lingers longer than we'd like to think. read more »

Grief Speak

Likely most of us have heard or read well-intentioned expressions of sympathy couched I "grief speak" that did little or nothing to comfort us. read more »

Convention

We live in a society that easily conforms to convention, especially when someone dies. read more »

On Being Loving

A fundamental source of our inner turmoil may be the quandary of love. read more »

Other Love

Other love is a self-emptying, surprising kind of love that shows us more of God's love. read more »

Empty Grief

I'm struggling to untangle the complex emotions at the heart of a complicated grief. I realize that what I'm really feeling is empty. read more »

Rebuilding

This story of productivity, change, destruction, and rebuilding is a kind of metaphor for our lives as we grieve the death of one we love. read more »