I often hear it said that grief is the price
of love. I disagree. Love is priceless, beyond measure. It flows from God, who
is love, to us, and back to God, drawing us closer to God and to our neighbour
as it does so. Love is a gift, not something we pay for, not now and not in the
future (buy now, pay later), neither in grief nor in any other currency. And
grief is also a gift. A gift that reminds us that we are human, a gift that can
draw us closer to everyone else who has ever lost someone, ever had to let go,
which is to say a gift that can draw us closer to everyone who has ever lived.
It may be that we want the one gift and not
the other. But gift they both are.
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