Every life touches grief more than once and the experience is bewildering. This is a good place to define grief because it has a much more expansive reach than we sometimes realize.  When Jesus speaks of mourning, everyone who heard his words framed that ache into the specifics of their lives because [1] grief is universal. But each also has a perspective because [2] grief is unique. Just as our fingerprints have distinctive grooves, so does our sorrow. But to all who were listening, whose hearts were open, [3] grief is uniting. We may not know all there is to another person’s life, but we have known enough of our worlds breaking we can have empathy for each other.