The Courage of Hope in Grief

"In all my 17 years of pastoral ministry, I've never encountered such gut wrenching grief as I have listened to this week," he says. "But there is a courageous hope about them that struck me even more than their grief." The tragedy occurred the week before Holy Week in the Christian tradition. But far from next Sunday's Easter being enveloped by the darkness of this tragedy, 'this tragedy is no match for the light of Easter Sunday'