Death tests your faith.
Once you are facing the end of your days in this life, you quickly find out how deeply you believed all those praise songs and Bible verses and sermons. Either your faith is rooted deeply or you quickly find out it was all just surfacey, good-time-rock-n-roll bull.
I suppose there are some who capitalize on grief, and if one has no conscience, they could find a lot of small business opportunities in the grief business. However, I believe now that there is definitely a place and time for grief-oriented services.
My wife and I are being cast as the strong ones in our family, the ones who will sacrifice everything so that everyone else can sacrifice nothing. Add all that responsibility to the loss we’re suffering and although we’re holding up well under the time of crisis, we have agreed we need to seek out a support group so we can work things through once Mom passes.
Marriage, like faith, takes effort and work and I’ll glad I have a wife who’s as willing to put in the effort it takes as I am.