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Grief can make you feel like you have to brace for impact every day, jaw tight, shoulders up, just trying to get through. We take a different path here: a slower, softer approach that trusts silence, tears, and the deep wisdom of the soul.

Candee Lucas, a Jesuit trained spiritual director and grief chaplain, reads and reflects on “The Place of Rest,” a poem featured in The Longing in Between: Sacred Poetry from Around the World (edited with commentary by Ivan M. Granger). We linger with lines like “Unto the deep, the deep heart goes” and the longing for “a deeper silence still,” exploring how inner quiet can become a refuge when loss feels overwhelming. If you’ve been searching for grief support that honors both spirituality and real human pain, this short episode offers language you can return to when you do not know what to say.

The reflection turns toward the poem’s final movement: “Where the last anguish deepens, there the fire of beauty smites through pain. A glory moves amid despair.” We talk about why this isn’t a call to grit your teeth and endure, but an invitation to relax into what you feel, to yield and become vulnerable. From a mystic perspective, the ache of separation can become the doorway to reunion, and what once felt unbearable can slowly transform into something tender, even touched by beauty.

If this resonates, subscribe on Spotify, Apple Music, or Amazon Music, share the episode with someone who’s grieving, and leave a review so more listeners can find the circle of support. What line from the poem stays with you most?