It may be hard to imagine that grief could be a gift, but imagine what it might be like to not be able to grieve. Maybe you don’t have to imagine so hard, though. We are surrounded and bombarded in our culture by ways to distract ourselves from what we feel and experience and to have alternatives to allowing ourselves to be permeated by pain and really take it in.
The easy way out of grief is to harden our hearts and turn the pain of our loss and fear of our vulnerability into rage and project it externally into some imagined perpetrator. Wars are waged, families broken, relationships shattered, people isolated when the mind tightens into a story and defends against the broken heart.
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