To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “Would you like to hold her?” On a cold winter morning more than 30 years ago, a young mother gently placed the body of her stillborn daughter, carefully wrapped in blankets, into my arms. She had come into the world that morning. And she had left our world that same morning. The Russian novelist Fyodor… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here Nancy Guthrie had never given much thought to the subject of grief. She and her husband David were excited about the arrival of their first child, a little girl named Hope, who came into the world in November 1998. Then everything changed. As Nancy put it, “Grief barged through the… Read more »
Year ago I heard a presentation called “What Not to Say at a Funeral.” In the presence of someone else’s grief and pain, so often we feel compelled to say something – anything – that will help make sense of the mystery of this loss. We want to make the moment easier. But the following statements are almost guaranteed to… Read more »
