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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 640831" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>There is a story in which Stephen King describes pain as a thing that comes in waves. When we are overwhelmed, when the things that are happening are so unbelievable, when we don't know how to respond, we go numb to external stimuli.</p><p></p><p>Beneath the cares of everyday, more real to us than the cares of everyday, we develop a relationship with our own pain.</p><p></p><p>And so, we learn a kind of courage.</p><p></p><p>Know that I am holding you in my thoughts and prayers this morning, Albatross. I wondered where your son was, and how the holidays were for you and for husband. It was helpful to me to read Maya Angelou. Reading her can teach us to choose sincerity and honor in relation to our pain, can teach us how to put one slow foot in front of the other and keep going, keep functioning, keep seeing and hearing over the steady beat of the pain of it. There is a way through this; there is a permeable, almost invisible barrier; there is a time when you will be on the other side of it.</p><p></p><p>There was a time when I was desperate to know whether I would always be trapped where I was, then.</p><p></p><p>I learned I could move through that strange landscape.</p><p></p><p>And I did, and I left it behind. </p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 640831, member: 17461"] There is a story in which Stephen King describes pain as a thing that comes in waves. When we are overwhelmed, when the things that are happening are so unbelievable, when we don't know how to respond, we go numb to external stimuli. Beneath the cares of everyday, more real to us than the cares of everyday, we develop a relationship with our own pain. And so, we learn a kind of courage. Know that I am holding you in my thoughts and prayers this morning, Albatross. I wondered where your son was, and how the holidays were for you and for husband. It was helpful to me to read Maya Angelou. Reading her can teach us to choose sincerity and honor in relation to our pain, can teach us how to put one slow foot in front of the other and keep going, keep functioning, keep seeing and hearing over the steady beat of the pain of it. There is a way through this; there is a permeable, almost invisible barrier; there is a time when you will be on the other side of it. There was a time when I was desperate to know whether I would always be trapped where I was, then. I learned I could move through that strange landscape. And I did, and I left it behind. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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