Prayer about grief and loss
A piano lesson in the key of Life
I learned to play the piano on my mother’s Steinway in the living room. It was a big, beautiful piano with a grand and resonant sound, and she cherished it. Because we both deeply loved music,...
‘In awe of God’s care’
“Thy Maker is thine husband” (Isaiah 54:5)—what in the world does that mean? My beloved husband of almost thirty years had just passed on, and somehow that Bible verse was supposed to be a comforti...
Changing the climate of death
Flags seem to fly at half staff more often than ever in my city, marking the passing of revered persons. They remind me that every day multimillions are mourning the loss of someone. Death is a con...
What cannot be lost
The title of a critically praised movie from a couple of years ago, All Is Lost, might seem a fitting summary of human experience at times. What a reliable theme loss is—for screenwriters and poets...
Christ my refuge
O'er waiting harpstrings of the mind There sweeps a strain, Low, sad, and sweet, whose measures bind The power of pain, And wake a white-winged angel throng...
A MOTHER'S PRAYER
Days before my children and young grandchildren were to move to the United States, I began to feel enormous anxiety. I remember meeting a friend on the street, who told me how her two children were...
Transcending grief: the healing of loss - Program 445
Are you grieving over a loss—of a loved one, a job, something that’s brought you happiness? Hear from people who faced loss, yet found good opportunities and experiences opening up for them through...