<p>Thinking of our theme,&nbsp;<strong>&ldquo;Is Grief Your Friend or Your Enemy?&rdquo;</strong>&nbsp;I appreciate this quote by author C. S. Lewis when he was writing about the death of his wife, &ldquo;And suddenly at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as if the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier. &ldquo;To me, C.S. Lewis is suggesting that spending time with&nbsp;<strong>grief</strong>&nbsp;as his&nbsp;<strong>friend</strong>&nbsp;allowed him to gradually release it. The gift he received was that he then remembered his wife best. If we treat&nbsp;<strong>grief</strong>&nbsp;as an&nbsp;<strong>enemy</strong>, it&rsquo;s my experience that it grows inside of us and pushes welcomed visitors out, making it difficult to remember our loved ones with love.&nbsp;</p>