I am deeply saddened every time someone passes away. I know life and death always go together. But I seem to live in denial until I’m forced not to. And no matter if we know the one who passed away or not, we pause at the shocking nature of loss. The sacred nature of grief ripples into our lives even when we didn’t personally break bread with the one who has passed away. We can grieve because we are not strangers to human hurt, even if we are strangers by definition.
