My Journey with the Grief Ninja
My Journey with the Grief Ninja To grieve is to be human. If you ever feel the joy of loving deeply you will also eventually experience the pain of grief and loss. It’s a price we pay to know and to be known, to love and be loved. “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves Wounds of grief can serve to soften or harden our hearts. A hardened heart may feel like it is bringing reprieve from pain, but it does not allow healing to come to the deep wounds of our souls. Not only do we bloc