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FRACTURE AND HEALING (CONTINUED)
“When we are fracturing, we are also
healing. In fact, our very fractures are
the first step in our healing.”
As counterintuitive as this may seem, however, Thankfully, we are not alone. These are the
all is not lost. We might start by remembering times when we need to reach out. And it is when
that breakdowns are mere centimeters away spiritual directors, guides and companions can
from breakthroughs. When we find ourselves on truly help, as they work continuously with
the edge of the abyss, we are also on the brink of fracture and healing. So we look to these intimacy
insight and revelation. workers, our doctors and healers, to assist us.
And paradoxically, the multiple medical, Needless to say, because this is our own internal
psychological and spiritual pandemics the world journey, they can’t “fix” us, as only we can
is undergoing provide the perfect fertilizer for our ultimately heal ourselves. Each and everyone of us
long festering wounds and traumas to burst and is responsible for our own spiritual growth after
release all of their toxicity, so that we are ready all. But our companions can help point the way,
to be sanitized and healed. Of course, releasing particularly by alerting us to the pitfalls, ravines
toxicity and surfacing our wounds is just as and crevasses on the journey which we should
messy, painful and unpleasant as it sounds! look out for, to avoid compounding our existing
wounds.
With that said, when we are fracturing, we are
also healing. In fact, our very fractures are the first And as we travel the road together, may we find
step in our healing. The difficult, challenging side ourselves listened into our own awakening. And
of healing, as we fall into sicknesses and despair mirrored as we remember ourselves, and our True
of various kinds and wrestle with our wounds Nature. And particularly so, as we deal with stress
directly. and fracture, and use those as
the mortar and bricks for the
In this maelstrom, it is a tall order indeed to foundation of our reemergence
be told to tend to our breakdowns as sacred and our spiritual flowering.
gifts, to look upon them with kindness and
understanding, even as we feel ourselves being
torn asunder.
Rev. SeiFu
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