Our family is grieving my brother's death and it's brought up all these different ways we understand love, loss, and what continues after death. My mom finds comfort in her Methodist faith, my sister has become deeply involved in Jewish mysticism, and I practice in a Buddhist tradition, and we all want to love him and honor him but our different understandings of where he is now and what love means across that threshold is tearing us apart.
More people experience this than they realize.
A family is discovering that unconditional love in grief requires finding ways to honor different understandings of death and continuity without abandoning what each person needs to make meaning of loss.
“Where Are You with Agape — unconditional love across traditions?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.