Kenny’s Reviews > In the Absence of the Ordinary: Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty--Essays on grief, change, and sacred transitions > Status Update

There is an old thought that says the strength of a community is reflected in the presence of generosity…Rather than acknowledging the multiple layers of gifting that are offered to us, we focus more on lack, on what is missing. This is not some cynical move, but a consequence of conditioning...Modernity keeps us hungry for more by turning our gaze toward absence.

“ The grief and sense of loss, that we often attribute to a failure in our personality, is actually a feeling of emptiness where beautiful and strange otherness should have been encountered.”

“There are times, more again, two seasons, when we are brought down into the train of shadows.… We are required to periodically surrender and Leander in the vast uncharted terrain of the underworld. These are times initiated by soul.” P. 51