Love reveals itself most clearly in grief. The empty spaces left behind show where love once lived, and still lives. Nothing replaces what we lose, but grief affirms the love that shaped us, and the connections that continue to grow around the absence. Service Leader: Octavia MacIsaac Service Coordinator: Charlene Zelanko Welcome and Zoom Link … Continue reading Affirming Love Through Grief
In the 1980’s my younger brother, parents, and I arrived in Canada as refugees. We eventually settled into a new life and the people we called friends became our family. In 2015 my parents suddenly passed away which changed the trajectory of my life and challenged my view on the meaning of life. Facing things … Continue reading The Lessons Grief Has Taught Me, and the Meaning of Resilience
Grief is something we will all experience. The ideas surrounding grief are usually negative and it is difficult to experience, but grief is also a great teacher. Grief teaches us about the value of mindful living, about how we love and care for others, and about acceptance and forgiveness. Join Octavia, a young adult well acquainted with loss in … Continue reading The Lessons of Grief: What We Learn About Love, Life, and Forgiveness
We live in a death-phobic and grief-avoidant society, which tells us that healthy grieving is grieving that doesn’t make other people uncomfortable. It shouldn’t last too long and, if it does, you are doing it wrong. In this service, Angela Haig exposes this line of thought for the fiction that it is, and then begins … Continue reading Healthy Grieving
In this 2nd part of a 3-part interactive series from the CUC 2021 Conference, Rev Anne Barker explores with us the idea of welcoming, openness, and inclusion. How these concepts are more than just ideas, they are practices. That there is peril in avoiding discomfort. Coordinator: Steve Lennon Join the Service with Zoom Connect to … Continue reading Confluence Talk Part 2: disComfort
