Of Earthly Grief, and Joy that Lasts

Note: On Fridays, you can find me atYour Daily Tripod,owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

Has your hour arrived?

I suspect many of us feel we have more than one during our lives. I think of the heartaches some of my friends have endured in the past couple of years: loss of an infant after less than one day of life, after an all-too-normal full-term pregnancy. The death of a spouse who suffered a never-before-experienced seizure while driving and was invol...