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Finding A Place To Stand In Grief And Spirit

Season 5 Episode 45

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A single line of poetry can stop you in your tracks, especially when you’re grieving. We open this reflection todat with a passage at…

6 days, 8 hours ago

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Grieve With Me

Season 5 Episode 44

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Don’t drop off the casserole and disappear. If you’ve ever been the grieving one left to “be strong,” or the friend desperate to help…

1 week, 6 days ago

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Grief Spending

Season 5 Episode 43

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Grief can make a price tag feel like a moral test. When we are standing in a funeral home just days after a death, we are not only ch…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

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Pain May Be The Doorway Home

Season 5 Episode 42

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Grief can make you feel like you have to brace for impact every day, jaw tight, shoulders up, just trying to get through. We take a d…

3 weeks, 6 days ago

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Pedro Arrupe At Hiroshima: Faith That Does Justice

Season 5 Episode 41

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The hardest part of grief is not always what happened. Sometimes it’s what it demands from you afterward: action when you have no too…

1 month ago

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Tonglen Turns Grief Into Shared Ground

Season 5 Episode 40

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Grief comes with a lot of advice, and most of it has the same hidden goal: get away from the pain. Stay busy. Distract yourself. Find…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Agape For The Hard Times

Season 5 Episode 39

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Some rooms don’t reward you for showing up. The person you’re there to support might be frightened, angry, sarcastic, or completely s…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Faith Is Fidelity Without Proof

Season 5 Episode 38

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“Good faith” sounds like a legal phrase, but what happens when you treat it as a spiritual practice instead, especially in grief? Slo…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Eulogy for Mom

Season 5 Episode 37

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A funeral recording fails, years pass, and a question refuses to let go: what did I say, and what do I wish I had said?  I’m offering…

2 months ago

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He Left His Sandals at the Door

Season 5 Episode 36

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Grief can make your life feel like a place you don’t recognize. The sky looks different, familiar rooms tilt, and the road under your…

2 months, 1 week ago

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