Though grief is an inevitable part of life, no one grieves in the same way or at the same pace. Your grief is personal; it cannot be neatly confined to a set number of weeks or months. You grieve as long as you must grieve. Yet one day, someday, you find yourself unexpectedly at the end of the grief journey, wavering between the past and the future. This is the moment when you decide emphatically to choose life. You rejoin life in the fullness for which God created you. You honor the steadfast love and faithfulness of God when you resolve to live the rest of the life that is yours, empowered by your own extraordinary gifts of grief.