What do I do with all this grief? (Rainer Marie Rilke / Fr. Ron Rolheiser)

    The poet Rainer Marie Rilke once wrote these words to a friend who, in the face of a death of a loved one, wondered how or where he could ever find consolation. What do I do with all this grief?

Do not be afraid to suffer,

give that heaviness back to the weight of the earth;

mountains are heavy, seas are heavy.

    So too is life sometimes, and we need to be given God’s permission to feel that heaviness.

--Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI

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