Is there a greater gift we can give the world these days than the permission and ability to grieve?
We visited some dear friends this weekend and marveled at their courage to grieve deep loss in their life. Whether such a thing is done privately or in public, a world like ours is in desperate need of grieving.
I suspect that our relative unpracticing of grieving makes a significant contribution to the violence of our society. To see and, more importantly, experience this 'other way' (the way of grieving) is both profound and freeing, not to mention healing.
