For Grief Professionals

Slip off your needs

And set them by the door

Enter barefoot

This darkened chapel

Hallowed by loss

Hallowed by sorrow

Its gray stone walls

And floor

You, congregation 

Of one

Are here to listen 

Not to sing

Kneel in the back pew,

Make no sound

Let the candles 

Speak….

Patricia McKernon Runkle