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Serene Jones — Grace in a Fractured World

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Grief and Mourning

Grief is a theological issue. It's something whereon our scientific frontiers we're actually understanding better that it's natural. And in mourning, the permanence of the loss, it can't be fixed. But also it creates a space in mourning for you to make sacred the pain so that the rest of your life is transformed by it. Mourning does. Pure grief just locks you in, right in the eternal present. And mourning gives us a chance for collectively right.

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