love, life, and loss

Love from Grief

"Without love, every music is noise, every dance is madness, and every worship is a burden" -Rumi

The day the church door was shut, I sat outside the gate and wept. I had been coming here to pray. The little sanctuary inside St. Mary's church had comforted me as cancer tore into the heart of my Dada. Inside that church, I had prayed, sang, worshipped, lamented, cried, and given thanks.

Medical intervention had been extraordinary; we as a family dared to be hopeful, and I, in particular, dreamt Dada would ring that…