Grief is Important

Grief is the toughest pain we have to deal with.  It is not the worst human experience, because it leads to resolution, but it is the most difficult for us to enter into voluntarily, which is the only way to get into it.  The rest of our human experiences just happens "to us."  Hurt, injury, anxiety, alienation, and failure all break through, and we suffer.  Grief does not "break through."  It is something we enter into.
                                                                   Author Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend