"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."

In her novel Come and Go, Molly Snow, Mary Ann Taylor-Hall gives an account of Carrie attempting to come to grips with the loss of her eight-year-old daughter, Molly Snow. Carrie is a fiddler, but in the wake of this tragic loss she says, "The music doesn't rise up in me right now."1 In the months that followed, Carrie listens to homespun wisdom and begins the first steps of coming to grips with the absence of Molly Snow and the presence of a deep, dull ache which had taken her place. At one point Carrie remarks, "Sometimes STILL HERE seems stranger than GONE."2

Carrie finds it is as hard or harder to deal with being left behind as it is to deal with Molly Snow's being gone. Most anyone who has lost some significant person in his…