Wonderfully Balanced and Nicely Heart-Warming

How do you make sense of the nonsense? How do you find meaning in face of great loss? How do you grow strength when death and grief blanket you with seeming weakness? This is a story set on "the worst day," but this worst day can be anyone's any day. The story-telling was not drowned by overwhelming sentimentality or manipulating schmaltz; the love, the hope, the journey goes on.