There are no seasonal "grief rules".

If this is the first holiday without your loved one, it's important to make a plan and structure the season accordingly.

Because of the rapid succession of holidays now upon us – Hanukkah, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year - November and December may feel like unending days of prolonged remembrance.

Gratitude has the power to release our heart and cleanse our spirit.

God directs our mind and actions in many ways when we pray for wisdom and insight.

When we're seeking rather than searching, we're about something deep and intentional.

God is with us as we grieve - as we remember, as we memorialize, as we live a life of rich, unbroken heritage in the love of those now lost to us in death.

There's perhaps no experience in all of life more atonal than grief.

The almost surreal fatigue of mind, body, and spirit that engulfs us when one we love dies often lingers longer than we'd like to think.

Likely most of us have heard or read well-intentioned expressions of sympathy couched I "grief speak" that did little or nothing to comfort us.

We live in a society that easily conforms to convention, especially when someone dies.

I'm struggling to untangle the complex emotions at the heart of a complicated grief. I realize that what I'm really feeling is empty.