In Memoriam

The Bridled with Joy staff is sad to report that one of the caboose riders experienced a loss in her family. Debbie's father-in-law Father Moss passed away this weekend after enduring a tough 10 weeks since his diagnosis. We are sad for the Moss family loss and grateful that Father Moss' suffering is now over. Bridled with Joy is committed to being present in the joyful times, as well as when the days are dark as night. We are thinking about the Moss family and its loss this weekend. I personally like to focus only on certain aspects of the life cycle, especially those parts where everything is alive. But death is a part of the cycle whether I like it or not, and we'll be there to support Debbie and her husband David this week and in the coming weeks, because grief requires love and attention and community support.

Death sure appears to making loving a risky venture. Our old friend Tennyson perhaps has said it best in his epic poem In Memoriam, AHH:

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.