How do I pray or find faith when I've lost someone I loved deeply?

Mirabai didn't pray the way people expected her to. After loss, she didn't return to neat devotion—she returned to the raw, honest place where grief and love live together. Prayer after loss isn't about finding your way back to who you were. It's about letting yourself be changed by what you've lost, and still reaching toward something—toward meaning, toward the person you loved, toward whatever ground feels solid enough to stand on. Start small. You don't need words. Mirabai sang in the streets; some days that was her prayer. Some days it was her rage. You might sit in silence. You might write letters. You might rage at whatever you believed in before. The examined heart—the one that's been broken open—is actually where real faith begins, not where it ends. Your faith doesn't have to look like it did before. It probably shouldn't. Let yourself ask hard questions. Let yourself doubt. Let yourself love the person who's gone without pretending they're not gone. That honesty, that refusal to look away from grief—that's devotion too.