Always the Limp?

CS Lewis wrote that dealing with grief was like adjusting to life with one leg amputated. He said that our whole way of life changes, and that while we may get around pretty well, we will probably walk with a limp and have recurrent pain for the rest of our life. After his wife died, Lewis didn’t think he would ever walk smoothly again.

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Deborah Greene wrote movingly about her father’s death and the Japanese art form kintsugi, a method of restoring broken pottery with a lacquer of precious metal. You can read her March 18 post, “On Grief and Brokenness” at http://reflectingoutloud.net/2016/03/18/on-grief-brokenness/