Ella, Help, I'm In Love With A Widow

sunday service: a sermon of 100 feelings

A little while ago someone wrote to me about being in love with a widow. This was the gist of the letter, anyway: there was more to it, there always is, but the gist was about loving someone who loved someone who is dead. How? How to do it? Is it possible?

I wrote back and said I didn’t have any advice at the time. Or actually, what I said was that I did sort of have advice, but I didn’t have any time to write it down; and what I meant by that was, writing about grief is very hard for me even though it used to be very easy for me, and so I kind of have to carve out space for it in my life with extreme caution.