Grief & Gratitude – If our lives were indeed tapestries, each strand its own color and thickness for each experience and memory, the results would most certainly include grief and gratitude woven finely together. The exquisite opportunities to love in this lifetime most assuredly mean we will know loss and we will know an expanded heart of gratitude. Our lives are full of emotion. Let us be willing to recognize them, use our words to express them with care and tenderness, allow tears and laughter to flow, and honor the gifts of gratitude as well as grief.