Grief has a way of making you feel like you're failing at something everyone else has figured out. You're not.

This memoir was born out of the kind of loss that doesn't announce itself neatly, the kind that leaves you standing in an ordinary moment, wondering how the world is still moving when yours has stopped. It's a faith-rooted, deeply personal account of what it means to love someone you can no longer reach, and to slowly, imperfectly, find your way back to living.

This is not a road map. It's a hand reaching across the page from someone who has sat in the same silence you might be sitting in right now. It won't tell you to move on. It will tell you that carrying the love is enough.

For anyone who has lost a spouse, a partner, or a person who held the shape of their world together.