I believe we have developed a greater understanding of the meaning and means of mourning. In 1969, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross published her classic book titled On Death and Dying. In it she identified five basic stages in the grieving process: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Personally and professionally, I have found these helpful categories in recognizing where I am in my grieving and where others are in theirs. I have also found it to be true that getting stuck in any one of the first four stages of denial, anger, bargaining, or depression keeps us from receiving the promised comfort. These are valid categories in describing responses to a wide range of losses. When we were in Atlanta, there were several church members who, in a short period of time, suffered the loss …