A thought to share

From "Certain Girls" by Jennifer Weiner.

" Do we reschedule?" she was asking. I'd stood in the kitchen door, holding my breath. I knew what the rabbi would tell her, which was that of Jewish tradition, you don't cancel a simcha because of a tragedy. Not a wedding, not a bris or baby naming, not s bar or bat mitzvah. You don't cancel, because in the midst of life we are in death, and we find joy in the middle of sorrow.