After experiencing loss, the grief-stricken often unknowingly take one of two extreme paths. They will push themselves back into everything they were doing before suffering loss and freefall into utter exhaustion; or give up on everything, isolate themselves, and plummet toward depression. Is there an alternative to these two extremes? We know that in Matthew 14, Jesus took some “time apart” after the death of his friend John the Baptist. Time apart allows for an emotional, physical, and spiritual reset so that the brokenhearted can approach the stages of grief with what is needed for the road to recovery.