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Before I wrote books I worked as a chaplain at a children’s hospital and when I was there my supervisor always used to tell me, ‘John, don’t just do something. Stand there.’ We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the cloud. But I believe there is real value in just standing there. Being still, being sad, bearing witness…and allowing ourselves to be transformed by it.