For many years, people preserved meat by salting it. (If you have ever had country ham you know this is still a method of preservation.) Salt cured the meat so it didn’t decay. Similarly, unless you salt your grief with hope, your grief will go bad. When we grieve and rage in the face of death, we are responding appropriately to a great evil. But Christians have a hope that can be “rubbed into” our sorrow and anger the way salt is rubbed into meat. Neither stifling grief nor giving way to despair is right. Neither repressed anger nor unchecked rage is good for your soul. But pressing hope into
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