Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! The primal scream of grief! No one could have prepared me for this life-changing moment. The shock to my body when I heard those unimaginable words. As if screaming could magically somehow stop the highway patrol officer from telling me my husband had just been killed in a car accident. >More…

In preparing for this review, I recalled once hearing the statement that “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” With that thought, I would start out by saying that this book would probably not be the first book I would recommend, but definitely one to read later in the process of dealing with grief – a helpful teacher for someone who is ready for it after the anger and tears have subsided sufficiently for them to want to dig deeper to find the whole story of grief. Anyone who has experienced a significant loss should get something meaningful out of this book because it offers interesting ways of understanding the experience of mourning and the value of allowing it to run its course to full completion. >More…

Welcome to the Foundation for Grace, I want to share with you the power of Divine Grace and how she works in our lives. A year ago Anna Redgate was graciously brought into my life by a cherished friend and participant of my work who I hadn’t heard from in years, Craig Bachrodt. He called and shared how his friend Anna had experienced the most unimaginable tragic loss of her life five years ago, at 6: 00pm on January 1, 2000. >More…

I’d rather eat ten penny nails than go to a victim’s impact panel and listen to a lineup of broken people tell the story of how their life was forever changed by a drunk driver.

But a friend of mine asked me to go for support as she told her story, an ordeal she goes through every month the panel meets.

After promising to go, I put it off for months. Finally, I could put it off no longer. I went. Her story and the others broke my heart. These are tales of dreams destroyed. Get a tissue before you start reading one story, the story of Grace. You are going to need it. >More…

Written by Buddhist Promoting Foundation
Once there was a young woman, the wife of a wealthy man… who became heart-sick because the death of her child. She took the dead child in her arms and went from house to house begging people to heal the child.

They could do nothing for her, but finally the disciple of a Wise One advised her to see his Mater, who was staying nearby. So the woman carried the dead child to the Master.

The Wise One looked upon her with sympathy and said, “To heal the child I need some poppy seeds; go and beg five poppy seeds from some home where death has never entered.

So the grief-stricken woman went out and sought a home where death had never entered, but in vain. In home after home she heard story after story of loss and grief. At last she was obliged to return to the sage. In his quiet presence her mind cleared and she understood the meaning of his suggestion. She took the body away and buried it in the earth, then returned to become and ardent seeker of truth.
from The Teachings of Buddha, by Buddhist Promoting Foundation, pp. 186-187 (Tokyo: Kosiado Printing Co. 1966)