Lifetime of Grief & Love
Grief is of the moment, but grief is also a lifetime of negotiating an empty spot. And grief looks like many things right now. If you’re like me, you’re grieving the loss of some true and real things hard-earned: community, trust, understanding. Compassion. It’s not all gone, but there’s a dearth of it right now in some places—and then, by God’s grace, there’s an uprising of compassion, a calling of many to do the right thing that stems only from something planted deep within each of us. To rise up, truly love, be genuine in our faith. This alone gives me great hope in this time of toxicity. I still desperately miss my spiritual director Fr. Tom, who would have had much to say, ways to guide, even just a word, sometimes—to heal, coax in the right direction, touch the soul. My soul at times feels too far away from the ways he was able to bring people together, but I know he planted in me the smallest of mustard seeds and that growth begins. If you’re like me, perhaps you were...