Grief

How should we talk about and process grief?

Working through difficult times is a necessary part of life.

Into the Waste Land

"April is the cruellest month..." begins the first line of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land. The poem is thought to be a portrayal of universal despair, where we lie in wait between the...

Lament No More

A sales receipt long tucked between the pages of a book can tell a story of its own. I am known for using the receipt handed to me at checkout as a bookmark for the purchase I...

The Right Side of Pain

We shuffled back and forth between the states that sat like metaphors between our divorced parents—a summer, a spring break, a Christmas far from one of them. The pain of the one...

Between Shadow and Reality

In an interesting encounter between Jesus and the paralytic given to us by Luke, we see a defining reminder of the relationship between soul and body, the temporal and the eternal.

Of Gratitude and Grief

Several years ago, I had the opportunity to visit with some friends who live in Colorado. We spent a couple of days hiking in the beautiful San Isabel National Forest. Within this...

Lament and the Journey to Resurrection

It was a cold February at Christ of the Desert monastery, high in the mountains of northern New Mexico. Behind the chapel, author William Bryant Logan noticed an open grave, the...

Sharing Grief

I find it difficult to cry in front of people, and I'm not even sure why.(1) Even when I want to cry, I can't. Behind closed doors I dissolve into a fountain of expression. But as...

Man of Sorrows

"Prosperity, pleasure, and success may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things." Those are the words of the famed pleasure...

Property of Tears

Five year-old Samantha was the victim of a cruel and tragic murder, and her own tears were the evidence that sealed the case against her abductor. "[S]he solved the crime," said...

Stepping into the Reality of Suffering

I recently sat across from a woman I wanted to adopt as a kind of nonna.(1) Originally from Croatia, she spoke with a soft accent and combination of wisdom and kindness. In...

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