Somewhere inside of all of us, there's a place where our deepest hurts forever cry out to be soothed.
The way people failed us as children, the jagged cliffs we stumbled down when we went looking for fertile fields -- they stayed with us, singing through the body long after the initial shock.
It can feel easier to sideline that hurt, to wrap it up and set it aside and try to get on with life.
But life only reveals itself through healing, and healing only comes when we pore over the heaviest loads we carry.
It takes courage to dive in, and patience and gentleness and tenderness but it's lifesaving. It opens the world.