bereavement, n.Definitions

Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

Bereavement is a genuine faith lifts us above the bitterness of grief ; a sense of Christ’s living presence takes away all unbearable loneliness even when we are most alone. In our darkest hours, to know that our lost friend is still living, still loving us, still ours, in the highest and best sense, must be unspeakably consoling.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.