Estimated reading time: 3 minutes When someone you love is gone forever, you welcome any new window that you didn’t have before that gives you a glimpse into understanding them better. Foster those connections now. You might not have the opportunity to make them later.

When the Death Star destroyed the planet Alderaan, Obi-Wan Kenobi said: "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." That line played over and over in our minds in the days after we lost Sean. His death has left a huge disruption in our family Force.