True healing is an unglamorous process of living

into the long lengths of pain.

Forging forward in the darkness.

Holding the tension between hoping to get well

and the acceptance of what is happening.

Tendering a devotion to the impossible task of recovery,

while being willing to live with the permanence of a wound;

befriending it with an earnest tenacity to meet it where it lives

without pushing our agenda upon it.

But here’s the paradox: you must accept what is happening

while also keeping the heart pulsing towards your becoming,

however slow and whispering it may be.

~Toko-pa Turner

how could I ever miss a thing?

inquiry for today~ help you and then help all of us…

why don’t you live well?

Your heartache is someone else’s hope.

If you make it through,

somebody else is going to make it through.

Tell your story.

~Kim McManus