How Can Joy & Grief Live Side By Side?
As I began to take in the miracle of integration happening during the intensity of last year I sought daily guidance for living what felt completely and utterly impossible; daily wedding joys and deadlines coexisting with moment by moment prayer requests and updates from the bedside of my cousin’s son in (what we would learn were to be) his final days. This was intense joy intertwined with deep grief. I could only go within (about every five minutes) and ask for comfort, guidance, relief and peace in the intense NOW that was unfolding. Just days before the wedding, in one 24 hour...
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