Grief and Bereavement

“We live in a world that does not value life. On the whole we are surrounded by or are witness to atrocity and carnage that should be the exception not the rule. This is not the cruelty and inevitability of our nature, or is it? Are we no better than the ferocity of the natural world? The opposite certainly exists too. Our capacity to love, create, grow, build and nurture. Where is the balance? Can’t we have the latter without the former? Isn’t the inevitability of death and destruction by natural causes enough to compel us not to create it through deliberate destruction? Isn’t the beauty enough to strive for or is that what we fight for when it is threatened?”