Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life

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Loss of any sort should stir up emotion; if it doesn’t, it’s because we’ve trained ourselves to be numb. We’ve bought into the great societal lie that emotional and sensitive is bad, is shameful, is weak, and worse yet is unlike Him.