Grief, Grace, and the Greatest Adventure Ahead

In this deeply moving episode of Journey from Grief to Healing, we hear from a grieving husband who discovers that life still has a plan for him—even after unimaginable loss. With humility and grace, he shares how staying emotionally “at the cemetery” would have meant a slow fade into emptiness. But life, in its mysterious and fierce kindness, shook him awake. Anchored in poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke and Adelaide Crapsey, and inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s wisdom, he shows us that grief is not the end of the story—it’s a passage. Through raw honesty and unexpected humor, he reminds us that love doesn’t vanish; it transforms. The hurt we carry honors those we’ve lost. Our courage to keep going, to live fully, is the greatest tribute we can offer. This episode is a heartfelt call to rejoin the flow of life, to find adventure again, and to tr ...