Darkness is near. For some of us, it never left. We were able to distract ourselves with hiking, late nights on our neighbor’s deck, feeling the warmth of the sun. Now the cold and setting sun reminds us what we have lost or was taken from us—a loved one to cancer, a promising career to COVID-19, a sense of hope in an election cycle, or a sense of belonging that has been upended. For some, you can sense your anxiety beginning to rise with winter looming. All of it is loss, grief, and real. 

It’s easy to treat grief as something that is bad or less than. To grieve is to be human, to be you. Not something to stuffed away or discarded, but something to be realized and engaged with. 

The definition of Vigil is, “a period of keeping awake during the time usually spent asleep, especially to keep watch or pray.”

I love this. To be fully awake with our selves, our loss, anxiety, or fear. 

So join us to light a candle for someone you love, write a word of hope to our community, or write a prayer of lament or confession. We’ll have a somber space for you to process your journey. 

You might feel averse to engaging your loss, but you are worth it friend.