Spiritual Themes>Grief and Loss|Quest Article

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17 This is what the Lord Almighty says:
“Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come;
send for the most skillful of them.

What helps when you are living with loss, grief, and great change?

So much of who we are is retained in our memories.

“Sit, Naomi, and pay attention!” This was my ongoing, never-ending command to my Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier.

We tend to talk about grief as the feeling that arises when someone we love dies.

When you’re a capable, confident, 28-year-old child of privilege and experience, then you are accustomed to taking the challenges that come up in life and simply…managing them.

One of the many ways to carve meaning out of grief is to honor the memory of those we have lost.

The movie Gravity, which came out in 2013, is about grief. And it’s worth watching with this in mind, because what Alfonso Cuarón, the director and co-writer, and Jonás Cuarón, the other co-writer, have to tell us about grief can help us through it.

When you lose someone you love, there are some things that are just really hard to hear: They’re in a better place. Time heals all wounds. I know how you feel.