Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Faith • Grief • History • Hope
Twenty-five years after September 11th, our grief has become more complicated. Some carry the deeply personal grief of someone they loved and lost; others carry the collective grief of a world that changed before our eyes. And now a generation has come of age knowing September 11th only as history. As memory passes from one generation to another, perhaps the question is no longer simply whether we will remember, but what our remembering will make of us.
There comes the point when the grief becomes less raw, and you adapt to life without the other person.
Behind every death number reported is a real flesh and blood person who has a family that loves them.
We never “get over” the loss. We learn to adapt to the new way of being community, being family and being church.
Thanks little man.
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