prayer support from his parishioners and friends. Then she dies. Emotional relief comes for Claypool only after much struggle, when he lets go of all he will miss out on — his daughter’s graduation from college, walking her down a wedding aisle, grandchildren — and comes to accept her life as a gift, one cruelly cut short and yet a gift all the same. And I am here to testify this is the only way down from the Mountain of Loss. I do not mean to say that such a perspective makes things easy, for it does