Our family used to have this beautiful tradition of lighting candles together every Friday but after my dad died last year we can't seem to do it anymore because we all grieve so differently and what used to feel sacred now just feels empty. My mom wants to keep trying and my sister thinks we should let it go and I'm caught in the middle wanting something but not knowing what.
More people experience this than they realize.
Grief has fractured your shared ritual, and each person's way of honoring what was lost feels incompatible with the others'.
“Where Are You with Aging and faith — the deepening?”
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