Show-Up and Shut-Up, A Better Way To Help A Grieving Friend

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What do you do, what do you say when someone you know has been struck by loss or tragedy? Unfortunately, over the past two weeks, I’ve had to ask myself these tough questions.

The cellphone rang, the distress palpable in my wife’s voice, “Greg, there’s so much bad in the world. There’s too much pain.” I understood, twice that week we received terrible and…