A Family Update Four Weeks After Our Worst Day | Tim Challies

Our grief is not what it was in the first days. It’s both better and worse. It’s perhaps not as sharp and pointed and not quite as constant as it was in the immediate aftermath. Yet as the weeks go by, we come to a deeper realization of what we’ve lost. As time passes, the ache deepens as we all come to a more advanced understanding of who Nick was

The first few days were spent in Louisville and culminated in a beautiful but sorrowful on-campus memorial service. We then traveled back to Canada to spend the next two weeks in isolation as we served out the mandatory 14-day quarantine for those who have travelled outside of the country. That stretch culminated in a painful funeral and excruciati

We don’t know how to live without him, but we are going to have to learn, aren’t we? What choice do we have?