One of the things I found after dad had died was that I'd end up counseling those around me and helping them cope with their inability to know what to say or do – it was incredibly taxing.

Rather than feeling they had to resolve the crisis that my father's death brought to their worldview, I felt it would have been better for them to have acknowledged the pain and loss but for no more than a few of them to inquired as to how I felt about it. For no more than a few of them to have quoted scripture at me as a solution.

Your thoughts prompted those thoughts.