Early last Sunday morning someone tried to relieve me of my vehicle that was parked in my driveway, smashing the steering column casing and gouging the tumbler. It caused me some grief as I muttered about baseball bats and wondered what would possess people to do such things. At times we can even feel a certain amount of grief as we place our tithe on the offering plate instead of a plane ticket or a new stereo. When we give so that we experience the effects of giving, it can feel like a loss. Of greater concern than material losses are the capacities and functions that we lose.
Hair falls, wrinkles frown, inverted triangular body shapes become pear like sigh.
Print was much larger, and late, rich meals a good night out. On a more serious note, disabled persons struggle with the loss of abilities, as do those who suffer from strokes, serious accidents or forms of dementia. Arthritis, blindness, hearing loss and disease can take so much from our life styles that we grieve long and hard for what has been lost. We also grief when our role in life changes, even in a small way. When this happens, our familiar place in social networks change thereby creating discomfort and loss.