Category Archives: Loss

I grew up in a church where every Sunday service began with a prelude and ended with a postlude.  No one ever told me what these words meant, but along the way, I surmised that these were musical pieces played … Continue reading →

It’s the end of October.  Popularly, these last few days are all about Halloween, costumes, candy and jack-o-lanterns.  Pull into traditional Christian churches, and the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls will be observed and celebrated.  These are days … Continue reading →

I often turn to poets for insight into my life, our life, the meaning of life.  That’s what they do.  They reach into the heart of being human and begin to write there.  They write inside the human heart. They … Continue reading →

During this past month, I have had the privilege of facilitating Religious Exploration sessions with adults and teens at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett.  Our topic was “Being Present to Those in Loss.”  I did not go to teach … Continue reading →

The first time I heard this song, I was sitting at my grandfather’s funeral.  He had died a long, slow, agonizing death from cancer.  I had grown up next door to him.  I learned to garden from him. My family … Continue reading →

Death is that loss that we think of as ultimate.  As I wrote yesterday, the family of Corey Jones is mourning their loss of his life in some as of yet to be explained conflict with a police officer.  Yesterday, … Continue reading →