Grief is adjustment. If you think about it, all of life is about constant, subtle adjustment. Intuitively you conform to circumstance. God has given you the ability to assess instantaneously practically any situation; you are innately equipped to adjust. Yet adjustment assumes monumental proportions when you grieve. You have spent all or part of your life in a relationship with your loved one—a bond physically dissolved by the event of death. In order to adjust, you are forced to press on toward the goal of life, whatever may lie ahead.