International Journal of Servant-Leadership
Abstract
When the phone call from my mother came it made everything seem far away. She told me my cousin, Jacine, a beautiful and intelligent young woman, had been killed in a drug shootout in the streets of Billings, Montana. Jade's life had been marred for some time by the hardened culture that haunts drug use everywhere, but of late she had emerged, married, and begun a new purchase on the kind of life she wanted. We all hoped so much for her, the shock of her death came like a cold dark undertow. But in the days ahead there would be little time to grieve or even gather to collectively remember her life. The man who murdered her had not been found and the event took the imagination of the city by storm, appearing in the local news for more than a year. It was not until after a long arduous passage that life seemed to return to a semblance of normalcy and the family began to come together again, though with a heavy underline of sorrow. We all tried to move on from an experience that had shattered us, but at the heart of it was something we stepped delicately around: our grief, our vulnerability...our brokenness.
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Ferch, Shann Ray
(2011)
"The Servant-Leader as Healer,"
International Journal of Servant-Leadership: Vol. 7, Article 2.
DOI: 10.33972/ijsl.160
Available at:
https://repository.gonzaga.edu/ijsl/vol7/iss1/2
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