Grief, gratitude and God: A holiday message for those carrying heavy hearts |
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The holidays are often called "the most wonderful time of the year." Yet for many, they are also the hardest.
As families gather for dinners, services and celebrations, countless Americans will do so carrying the quiet ache of loss. Erika Kirk will face that reality this year, marking the season without her beloved Charlie. The lights, the laughter, the traditions, will all feel different.
She’s not alone. Across our nation, families will set one less place at the table, hang one less stocking or hear one less familiar voice. Some will grieve a recent loss; others will feel the echo of one that never fades. I understand that pain. My family has lived it.
When my uncle Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, our world was shaken. A few years later came more heartbreak: the murder of my grandmother, Mama King, and the untimely death of my father, A.D. King, whose passing was never fully investigated as it should have been.
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Those losses left deep scars. Yet even in that sorrow, my grandfather, Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., whom we........