Friends, you’re not a failure! — When your loved one dies, you haven’t failed them. — When you haven’t practiced the best self care because death has consumed you, you’re not a failure. — When you go back to work and you’re still grieving just as hard as ever, you’re not a failure. — When […]
Note: I was editing this post when a house call came in. I don’t think I’ll be in front of a computer until late tonight, so I present to you a blog post with even MORE errors than normal 🙂 I just got off the phone with a lady who lost her husband […]
A couple years ago, my funeral home buried a saint named Jennifer. As far as I know, she didn’t perform any supernatural miracles, like turning water into wine, but she did a kind of miracle that suspends our natural evolutionary tendencies. Per the testimony of her family, she performed her miracles with everyone she met, […]
I write in my book, When hardship comes, some hearts are broken apart, and like pottery or glass, those hearts are difficult to put back together. But other hearts are broken open like a fist that opens itself to receive and give back, or like clay that adapts to pressure. Whereas death’s wildeness can shatter […]
One. Don’t use a death as an object lesson The first piece I ever wrote for a magazine was about the death of Jackass crew member Ryan Dunn and how people were using his reckless driving death as an object lesson. Even though it’s tough to do, especially when we want to teach our kids […]