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02/17/2026

“But gratitude is where love lives. When we find ways to remember and continue to revel in our love for the person who died, we are feeling grateful for the time we were privileged to share."
~ Grief One Day At a Time: 365 Meditations to Help You Heal After Loss by Alan Wolfelt
It is miraculous to watch our grief group members find gratitude in the midst of grieving the death of their loved one. Our next group begins March 4th on Brighter Days Family Grief Center’s HIPPA compliant Zoom Platform. Please see registration information on the flyer below.

02/08/2026

So grateful for Recovery Sunday at Creekside United Church of Christ, formerly Mayflower UCC

To give to Creekside remotely: Text "Creekside" to 73256 and follow the links.All are welcome to a Virtual Coffee Hour immediately following worship! It’s a ...

01/16/2026

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12/30/2025

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12/21/2025

"Be Kind, For Everyone is Fighting a Great Battle"
Quiet intelligence with civilizational power
Krista Tippett

Dec 20 ∙ Guest post

Dear Friends,
In these quiet days of a violent December, a single, simple sentence is coming back to me from the earliest days of On Being. It was a gift from the late wise physician Sherwin Nuland. He attributed it to Philo of Alexandria, but I also find it credited to Plato or the 19th-century Scottish Reverend John Watson:
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.”
This sentence has stayed alive for centuries, because it tells an enduring truth each of us feels in our bones upon reading it. But it is far more than a gentle reminder in this world we inhabit. It is quiet intelligence with civilizational power. The news brings it home every day now with awful variation — the chaos and terror that a despairing human being can wreak.
On my bad days, I can almost grow nostalgic for the high geopolitical terrors of the Cold War world of my childhood and young adulthood. Then, we lived with the stark knowledge that nuclear missiles, hidden in the ground within striking distance of any one of us, could ascend at any moment with the push of a button. Now, it feels like our time and its technologies are weaponizing the inborn vulnerability and volatility of human beings.
This counsel of Philo (or Plato or Rev. Watson) becomes a way to anchor and stand more gracefully before this reality of our time. “Be kind, for everyone is fighting a great battle.” See what happens if you take this as a life practice through the ordinary encounters of your days. How do you internalize the news differently? How do you grieve the pain and celebrate the beauty of this world differently? That fathoms of struggle hide in you and in people you love is true too of every stranger, even those who vex and frighten. So is the fact that we and they are more than the sum of our struggles, and we are all capable of surprising ourselves, and of healing and changing, our whole lives long. Tenderness on the part of beloveds and strangers goes a long way to help.
I send this note with blessings to you for a tender, peaceful turn of the year. We are in production for a short, powerful season of new On Being episodes that will be published beginning in January. Stay tuned for more, and I’d love to encounter you at one of the events planned for the months ahead that are described below.
I offer this with love, as always,
Krista

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12/09/2025

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12/05/2025

Group members found this article very helpful.

Learn kind and clear ways to decline holiday invitations when you’re grieving while still honoring your relationships and protecting your well-being.

10/20/2025

The marketing firm of Six-Speed https://www.sixspeed.com/ is hosting a day of Gridiron, Golf and Giving Nov 15th from 11am - 7pm to raise funds for the Overdose Prevention Project. The details are in the link below. Please be aware that alcohol will be served that the event.

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November 15, 2025 @ 11:00 AM - 4828 W 35th St, Minneapolis, MN 55416, USA

10/08/2025

Today my son, Aaron, would be celebrating his 52nd birthday. Even though it's been 17 years since he died, I will always be grateful for the 33 years I was able to share with him. I am also grateful we can offer support for those who have a loved who has died from substance use. We have just a couple of spots left for our next grief group which begins Wed. Oct 15th. Registration deadline is Monday, Oct. 13th. Please see the flyer below for details and to register. Please share where appropriate. Thank-you!

10/01/2025

"A Different Kind of Grief" was coined after much self-examination of my grief process and research into traumatic and stigmatized deaths after my son, Aaron, died of a he**in overdose in 2007. Two things stood out for me: 1) The stigma and shame that often accompanies the loved one with the substance use is transferred to the family and friends who are supporting the loved one. 2) There's a two-fold loss: the family and friends hold onto the hope of recovery while the loved one struggles. When the loved one dies, the family and friends not only have the death of the loved one to grieve, but also the hope of their recovery that dies within them.

We have a couple of spots open for our next grief group. Registration deadline is Oct 13th. Please see flyer below for registration information.

09/30/2025

I’m just learning about Co-Destiny: A conceptual goal for parental bereavement which is a call for a "Positive Turn" in the Scientific Study of the Parental Bereavement Process. (Finding Comfort in Grief through Connection and Co-Destiny). We see this in many of our clients as they process their grief. This seems to be a result of or part of Post Traumatic Growth (Post-Traumatic Growth | Psychology Today).It’s an awareness that one could add “goodness” to their child’s life by doing “good” in his name. Everything that parents do that is a result of having known and raised their child ultimately reflects back to them, adding to their perceived quality of their child’s life. This might motivate parents not only to change their philosophy in life, but to act upon this philosophy.