Overheard in Recovery: Tears and Wounds
From the Daily Reading on Thursday in a women's meditation book:
My tears can heal andReminded me of the classic and ministry changing work of Henri Nouwen in The Wounded Healer. It has been around for over 40 years now and has not lost an ounce of its power. Being a wounded healer is the secret of the 12-Step movement. It is the way that the best ministers and counselors and therapists do what they do whether they verbalize it or now.
the wounded are everywhere.
Do not be afraid of your tears. They will bring healing to you and others.
From Nouwen:
“When we become aware that we do not have to escape our pains, but that we can mobilize them into a common search for life, those very pains are transformed from expressions of despair into signs of hope”
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