Grief comes in all sizes because loss comes in all sizes. Small sadnesses happen every day, and we mark them and move on. Intense sadness eventually comes to everyone, and we struggle not to be overwhelmed by it. One solution is detachment: you do not feel the loss so keenly because you were never attached to the lost one in the first place. Another solution is to recognize that grief can offer profound learning. It can be “the garden of compassion,” to quote Rumi. It is the way we come to understand and empathize with another’s deep feeling.

Grief Rituals

There is a grief ritual that I can heartily recommend at this time of profound distress and dread and even doom. But also potential grace. 

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Worship Materials: Death and Grieving

1. Every tear is a womb which can birth new life. 2. Grief is the narrow passage through which we pass from death to life.

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They're Carted Off Like Cattle

They’re carted off like cattle, yet we’d refuse a bed to those who flee from carnage now drowned, or lost or dead?

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