The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief

by Francis Weller

Grief and love are sisters, woven together from the beginning.

to restore soul to grief work and grief to soul work.

Sorrow is a sustained note in the song of being alive.

To be human is to know loss in its many forms.

When we fully honor our many losses, our lives become more fully able to embody the wild joy that aches to leap from our hearts into the shimmering world.

“Grief dares us to love once more.”