Oil for Your Lantern: Sharing Light After the Death of a Child

We live in a grief-illiterate society. After the death of a child we often hear "there are no words." But there are words. Oil for Your Lantern offers the newly bereaved, and those who love them, a gentle introduction to life after the death of a child, sharing words when we don't yet have them ourselves.

Oil for Your Lantern is a series of thirty essays written by Elizabeth Brady since the sudden death of her son, Mack, from sepsis in 2012. Elizabeth's essays move both outward and deeply i...