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Is Hope a Bitter Pill?
I spent 7 years studying the healing traditions in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. At holy water sites across the country I witnessed people flock to find relief from physical and…
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Pull Yourself Together
The other day, when I was clearing out the bins, a coffee packet slipped onto the floor. It was an ugly packet for the cheapest ground coffee and at the…
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Do You Have the Right to Grieve?
We tend to think of grief as intensely private. But within the wider cultural context, grief is validated or censored – both implicitly and explicitly. I’ve heard someone speak with…
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Integration
A rainbow has pierced the clouds in front of my study window. The disintegration of light reveals a magnificence that neither sun nor rain can produce on its own. Grief…
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Grief says nothing about the person we are grieving
At a time of national mourning, we are naturally drawn to consider the nature of grief. It can be confusing when intense feelings are stirred by the death of someone…
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An Ultra-Marathon of Grief
Photograph: David Allaway, Iona Images
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Healing Makes our Hearts Happy
For over twenty years the book, Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy by Richard Katz et al., has inspired me from my bookshelf. The contents of the book have faded in…
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Let the Sea be your Teacher
This morning, looking out at the sea, a poem of Mary Oliver’s came to me: I go down to the shore in the morning And depending on the hour the…
