“There isn’t a minute when your heart is free from pain and heartache. Having the support of each other makes us stronger, singing together makes us ‘super strong’. We all have to live in hope. If there’s no hope, what do we have to live for, there would be nothing. Our common goal is to find our missing loved ones and bring them home where they belong.”
–Peter Boxell, as quoted in Katherine Hedderly, “Those who are Missing,” in Liturgy on the Edge, pg. 56
Reading the title, “Missing Loved Ones,” I assumed that the piece was either about not being able to be with loved ones for Thanksgiving or about grieving loved ones who had died. But the last sentence about “finding our loved ones and bringing them home where they belong” suggests that the piece is about military personnel who are MIA or kids who have been kidnapped or who have run away from home. So I am confused. The piece is not long enough to provide appropriate context for what it did include.