Tag: healing

  • The Solitude of Loss: Finding Grace in the Absence of Answers

    I. The Weight of an Interrupted Life Phone calls from my friends are always a welcome occurrence. But not last Sunday. Good friends of mine called to tell me about the loss of their only son. In an instant he perished in an accident. I cried out into the phone, desperate to know how, why.…

  • We Were on a Break

    Part II There’s a particular kind of season many of us know well — not a crisis, exactly, but a stretch of time when the practical demands of life grow louder than everything else. Decisions to make, logistics to manage, transitions to navigate. The kind of living that keeps your hands full and your calendar…