The power
of love and pain
share the
same root.
They are
not opposites
or even
opposite sides
of the
same coin,
but
branches on the same tree.
It is the
tree of Life,
and cannot
be climbed
without
grasping and
standing
on all the branches.
Life
itself is wrapped in pain.
Avoidance
of the latter not only
steers
clear of love, it is the road
to never
having lived at all.
Love and
pain make the endurance
of one another
possible,
but also
the transformative hope
of each
other available.
Pain is
the story that teaches us
what it's
like to reach into the deep places
we'd have
missed otherwise.
Love is
the redemptive healing
drawing
us out of our own aching caves
into the sacred
wells of others.
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| Photo by Lee Lindsey McKinney |
© 2014
Todd Jenkins
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