loss

’Tis the season to spend money. What we lack in time, we try to make up for in money, throwing it at people and problems who actually need minutes and hours.

Baking Christmas cookies is a reminder of what it means to be a Christian: to live always with a sense of longing, of that joyful expectation tinged with sorrow that comes from knowing that the greatest desire of our heart will never be fulfilled in this earthly life.

In his latest book, Father James Martin writes about “Journeying into the place of letting go can be difficult.” He hopes to be “a guide down that staircase, into the tomb, and then back out into the light.”

The Mass was for couples or families who have suffered the loss of a child in any way, including from miscarriage, illness, abortion, SIDS, or accident, and for those suffering infertility.

Through the creation of the INAI gallery, from a Japanese word meaning “within,” Adrian Dominican Sisters put together a memorial project as a way to process the grief of losing friends.

D. Anne Jones knew she wanted to use her gift of painting portraits to help others in some way. But it took tragedy to solidify the idea.

Prayer and humor are a means of dealing with our loss.

Elizabeth Berg has written many popular novels, but her new novel, “The Story of Arthur Truluv,” is a gem and features three characters who are struggling to deal with the loss of someone dear to them.