Pastor Drew Jackson, spent the last days of his mother’s life accompanying her through her death, a painful and heart-wrenching journey for them both. Not long after, we spent a weekend together on a retreat hosted by my nonprofit. There Drew shared one of the most profound thoughts on the contemplative journey I’ve ever heard. Life best lived is lived as a series of losses, a series of deaths. Death is not meant to be a one-time event at the end of life but, rather, a daily experience by which we learn to continually embrace the unknown, step into mystery, and release the need to
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