“If you have a body, you are entitled to the full range of
feelings. It comes with the package.”
~ Anne Lamott
Once again, as is often the case I have found words penned
to express what I am feeling by a beautiful author. Anne Lamott in her magnificently
authentic writing gives voice to the human condition. She, I believe, captures
poignantly what it is to feel, to be honest, to be free to be transformed by
experience, pain and grief so as to become who you were already but were
unaware of because it was buried so deep inside covered with lies and
misconceptions. Your true self with all of the possibilities of living – yet,
the darkness and ambiguity have to have their day. Perhaps many days before
glimpses of the light sneak through the cracks in your soul. These times are
not to be feared, but embraced for their truth of who you are as Anne writes, “…to
dance with the limp.”
Beautifully honest words:
“You will lose
someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the
bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But
this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t
seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never
heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to
dance with the limp.” ~ Anne Lamott
(The Eagles ~ Help Me Through The Night)
“And I felt like my
heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real
joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment.
Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on,
and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms
wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.” ~ Anne Lamott
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