From AP News: “There is no talk at Selah Carefarm of ending the pain of loss, just of building the emotional muscle to handle it.
Here, the names of the dead can be spoken and the agony of loss can be shown. No one turns away.
. . . Many who come here have been frustrated by communities and counselors who tell them to move on from their loss. They’ve been pushed to be medicated or plied with platitudes that hurt more than help. Friends tell a grieving mom that God needed an angel or ask a brokenhearted spouse why he’s still wearing his wedding ring. Again and again, they’re told to forget and move on.
Here, though, visitors learn the void will be with them, some way or another, forever.
. . . If it seems counterintuitive that coming to a place where every story is sad could actually uplift, Selah’s adherents point to their own experiences on the farm and the inching progress they’ve made.”
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