You are under no obligation to smile. You are also under no obligation not to smile. You are allowed to do whatever it is you want with your own face.
What expression is on your face right now?
Everything Repeats
“For in grief nothing “stays put.” One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats.”
―C.S. Lewis
Over time, how (if at all) has grief shifted for you?
A Little Light
Your little light is not enough to illuminate the whole world. It doesn’t need to be.
What tiny thing will you do today to bring brightness to your bit of the world?
Give Sorrow Words
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break.”
― William Shakespeare
How do you give words to your sorrow?
Memorial
When tragedy or terror strikes, hearts and bodies and relationships are broken. We knit our communities back together by public witness and public mourning, by coming together to honor what we have lost.
When have you been moved by public mourning?