Grief Observed

This has been a year of 'grief observed'. Rebecca's brother died a year ago. My sister Cindy passed away last August. Rebecca's father just last month. These three people have been greatly loved. It has been difficult to let them go.

In The Awakened Heart, author Gerald May writes: "Love is present whenever we experience loneliness, loss, [and] grief.... We may say such feelings of bereavement come from an absence of love, but in fact they are signs of our loving; they express how much we care. We grieve according to how much of ourselves we have already given; we yearn according to how much we would give, if only we could."