Grieving with Those Who Grieve

By Glenn Lucke

I met a pastor the other day. We rode in a van to a dinner, and then at the dinner, amidst eight other people, we ended up sitting across from each other and talking. The next morning we were on the same hotel elevator and had a moment or two while I was waiting to check out of the conference hotel.

In those three conversations I got to know a man who struck me as humble, kind, very bright and well read, proud of his sons and one who enjoyed life with his sons. The one mention of his wife was the high level of excellence with which she had homeschooled their boys.

Because he is a potential client for my business (some of what we had talked about) I decided to look him up online and find out more. I ended up at his blog where I read about the death of his wife. His story about cleaning out her clothes closet, over a year after her death, slew me.

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