Collette Broady Grund

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a blog and resources about love, loss and faith.

Mother and step-mother, pastor and writer, Collette Broady Grund offers her perspective on grief and faith. Scroll down for blog posts and sermons, or click the buttons below to check out her Grief Lectionary Study or contact her about speaking engagements, workshops and small group leadership.

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  • God and No Mortal: A Sermon on Hosea

    We are in the book of God’s prophet Hosea this week, about a hundred years after Elijah’s story from last week. Hosea lives in the northern Kingdom of Israel, likely the distant descendant of those who revolted against King Rehoboam in our scripture from two weeks ago. And from that moment when Jeroboam built the […]

    November 10, 2019
  • Afterlife (An Attempt at Embodied Theology)

    What happens to us after we die? If someone had asked me that 4 months ago, I would’ve given vague but scriptural answers along the lines of the heavenly visions in Revelation, and John chapter 14. We go to the place prepared for us, a place separate from earth (though not entirely) which will one […]

    November 7, 2019
  • Communing with my Saint

    The blackbirds beckoned me toward the woods, reminding me of the autumns we spent under their myriad voices, flocked together to signal the change of season. I was going anyway, with the confluence of All Saints’ Day and Deer Opener, my first as an actual widow, rather than the jokingly named Hunting Widow. But the […]

    November 1, 2019
  • No Redemption Worth the Price

    In the four months since Marrett’s death, there have been a few moments of what Jaamil Kosoko calls “post-traumatic enlightenment”.  The things that Marrett taught me have coalesced in important ways that are giving new shape to the way I carry him with me moving forward. My understanding of the afterlife is undergoing a complete […]

    October 29, 2019
  • Entreat Them Not To Leave You: A Sermon on Ruth 1

    The most misused wedding text in the bible is 1 Corinthians 13, but Ruth’s speech to Naomi from this morning’s reading has to be a close second. Perhaps you know the song based on this speech, Entreat Me Not To Leave You, which has been sung at many weddings. Now, don’t get me wrong, these […]

    October 18, 2019
  • Five

    Today it would have been five. It should have been five. This year, more than any of the other four, we worked our marriage hard. Because we’d been under so much stress with my work and his career change, with family situations, and with a recurrent conflict between us, we started a marriage enrichment book […]

    September 19, 2019
  • Choosing Self(ishly?)

    A conversation I had with myself on the way out of therapy today (3 pm): Me: I’m exhausted. I have an hour before I have to pick up kids. I should do something nice for myself, like rest. Or eat. Wait, when was the last time I ate? Breakfast? Other Me: But you said you’d […]

    August 29, 2019
  • Heroes of Faith

    A sermon on Hebrews chapter 11   (read the biblical text here) Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. I stand before you as one who has very little assurance or conviction this morning, but I stand here nonetheless. It is faith which allows me to get up here […]

    August 11, 2019
  • Cause of Death

    Cause of Death: Immediate, Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease Other Contributing Conditions: Hepatomegaly, Hepatic Steatosis Monday morning, the death certificates arrived at the funeral home, the signal I’d been waiting for to say the toxicology report was finished and the autopsy officially complete. I talked to the medical examiner Monday afternoon. He seemed as shocked as I was […]

    August 7, 2019
  • The Question

    I entered the church building yesterday for the first time since the funeral: to test it out, to see what it would feel like, to know whether I can actually go back to work next week as I have planned. On the one hand, it felt bad to be there, partly because everyone looked so […]

    July 26, 2019
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