ina an lingwood mosque had other plans. stood up in a moment of acute pain, you stood up and you stood together. and in reaction to tragedy, you achieved something remarkable. i have had reasons myself to reflect on grief and sudden pain and loss of life and in my role i have seen that the approach to sorrow in others in moments of tragedy as i have today. what i have realised is that, of course, it can change your outlook, do everforget the course, it can change your outlook, do ever forget the shock, the sadness and the pain, but i do not believe that grief changes who you. grief, if you let it, will reveal who you are. it can reveal depth that you did not know you had stop the startling wake of grief can best any bubble of complacency of how you live your life and help you live up to the values you aspire to. this is exactly what happened here in christchurch on the 15th of march. an act of violence were designed to change new zealand and instead, the grief of a nation revealed just how deep your wells of empathy, compas