We do many public events at the Friends Incubator for Public Ministry. When I recently gathered with a group of seekers for the conversation with my dear friend and fellow public minister Lynette Davis, Grief and Creativity in Public Ministr y , I could sense immediately that people were arriving with their own tender stories. We were a room full of people who knew something about sorrow and about longing. And as soon as Lynette and I began talking, it became clear that what