@Harpers @RichardRohrOFM end\ Nothing in Meghan's luminous telling makes self-destruction beautiful. The beauty is in a life becoming more whole through what it cannot resolve or master. Perhaps grace is precisely this: woundedness neither denied nor enthroned, but opened toward a healing forever gifted.
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It is our humanity, not our pseudo-perfection, that allows us to receive & pass on what Xians call grace—the goodness that flows into our lives from beyond. This is Nouwen’s 'wounded healer'—one who mediates healing, not despite personal wounds but precisely because of them. Rohr Image with calligraphy: I show how vulnerable I am and therefore have power '...As Elisabeth Kubler-Ross observes, “There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”...As Blake noted, “A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees...” sapport.scribble.com/Mainpages/rootsofhealing.htm
@aahrens430 @pauljpastor Echoes everywhere: Saroyan, "Good people are good because they come to wisdom through failure." @RichardRohrOFM: “I doubt if there is any other way. All the rest is mere self-validation.” Meister Eckhart: "We are made perfect by what happens to us, not by what we do."
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