Pain, borne alone, cripples.

“The pain that cripples is the pain that is borne alone--never put into words. This is the pain that becomes a pool of tears hidden away inside, keeping us from connecting in any important way with others.” Elizabeth O’Connor

She goes on to note that: “healing is not going to happen in any important way as long as the pain in us and around us goes unacknowledged and unexplored. A wailing wall is never the end of it. It is always the beginning. . . . We discover around these wailing walls that our pain is related to what we are to do in life. Pain gives us a vision of God's new world. Wrapped up in our anguish is a work that will heal us and heal the society.”

Comments

Rachael said…
Ah, the wailing wall as the beginning - I like it!