I didn't know what to say. I had replayed the appropriate response in my mind multiple times but could never land on something substantial. Now, here I was in the moment I had been preparing for with absolutely nothing to say. I was really a stranger, after all, to this very private person. We had only met once before. So what could I say to them knowing that they had recently lost a child? Other strangers standing there with me said, "I am so sorry for your loss," and "I'm praying for you." Me? I stood there in awkward silence. I drove away that day replaying my idiotic behavior. I felt so foolish. Why hadn't I offered condolences? Why hadn't I said that I, too, was sorry for their loss? At the time, it all sounded so flat, so hollow. Now, I just felt like a fool, like one of Job's friends who just sat there and said nothing for an entire week. An entire week! Yep. I was now that fool. I had never suffered such devastating loss as the passin