Dear LFTP: inviting a grieving friend to a festive occasion

• Is it rude to invite someone to a festive occasion shortly after they lost a loved one?

The Dear LFTP letter asks whether it is rude to invite someone to a festive occasion weeks after they lost a loved one, and whether there is a timetable or etiquette rule. The hosts say there is no fixed period — it depends on the relationship — and advise a direct conversation rather than a generic invitation, offering the friend an easy out; one host jokes about inviting a grieving friend to a Sammy Hagar concert ('the car would be driving by your place'). They read the 'Secular' answer (call, mention the celebration obliquely, say the invitation is open) and mock it as phony; the follow-up Secular reading claims there is no timetable for grief and that much grieving may have happened while the deceased was ailing. The chapter ends with the Truth Network radio signoff and a final plug for Moriah Harris's support page.