Grief is, in part, about sorting out and reassembling your inside world after the death of your loved one. At the moment you feel present to yourself again—changed yet returned after a long and precarious absence from the world—you respond to the irresistible emotional urge to engage and venture forth again. Perhaps you reach out to encounter a stranger for even a moment, testing to see if there still is a heart within you that validates the mechanics of a long-unused smile. When your mind and heart are restored to full citizenship within yourself, you see clear evidence of God in the outside world.