July 22, 2020
There is a shift happening right now as the world readjusts and does some resetting, due to its current and ongoing circumstances. It is hard and beautiful. There is also a deep groaning taking place. A groaning that is easy to dismiss, because trying to hold its gaze without looking away is incomparably painful. The groaning of what shouldn’t be, but yet what is. Today. The groaning is extra loud today, as I hear about the stories of two college friends who both lost their mothers yesterday. It shouldn’t be that way. But it is. My hurt for them both is fresh and alive. “Grief” isn’t a word to throw around lightly. It’s an anguish of the soul. It lives and breathes beneath the surface of what we see on the outside. Grief is deep and multifaceted. It shows up in unexpected ways. It is ongoing and can be triggered by the smallest of actions. Grief can only accurately be experienced, as opposed to just explain...