When Grief Has Done its Work

There comes a moment in grief when the pain has nowhere left to go—not because it has been resolved, but because it has reached the far edge of what the heart can bear. In that quiet threshold, grief loosens its hold on time and turns inward, softening into presence. What remains is not absence, but a love that has outgrown form—no longer reaching, no longer aching, simply resting in what is. This is not consolation, but recognition: that at the end of grief’s long journey, love is found waiting, vast and unbroken. In the quiet between heartbeats a whis...