All in Grief
And I have a confession to make.
I have fallen once again into that old familiar pit. I have been focusing my psychic energy on pity for the victims on the other side of the world and forgetting that this unimaginable moment might also have something for my tragic soul as well.
So today I asked myself a simple question… What might a Pilgrim do in this tragic moment?
On today’s blog, Kari reflects on the insight and perspective she gained reading Suleika Jaouad's memoir “Between two Kingdoms.” Suleika’s four-year pilgrimage fighting Leukemia and her recovery journey after surviving teaches us that we can paralyze ourselves when we look at life through a binary of whole or broken. and that healing and forward movement can come when we learn how to live in the space in-between.
Finding out someone you love has experienced tremendous abuse is heartbreaking. For the first time in her almost 40 year friendship with our most recent podcast guest, Jill Riley, Kari writes about sitting with this emotional cocktail of regret, anger, sadness, and deep grief.
On the first podcast of season two, I shared with you all about the loss of my father in August. I’ll be honest, it was hard to be so vulnerable; so raw. His death, combined with everything going on in my city, the country, and the world is so so heavy. I feel it in the very core of me.
We are grieving a lot of things these days and as Tony mentioned on the podcast, we in the western world not only do not know how to deal with grief, we purposefully run from it…
On last week's podcast, Kari blessed me and I hope you with her present progressive grief.
I, like so many of us, have experienced loss and watched/shared heart-rending sorrow many times in my almost fifty years.
However, unlike most, I once wrote a book about loss and God. I have also been asked to be the curate/cleric of several memorial services for those who died tragically and far, far too young…
