.....remain but maybe in time the pain numbs, maybe even seems to slip away, but the scars of struggles and battles lost always remain, and with good reason.
There's a scene in Thornton Wilder's play 'The angel that trouble the waters' where a doctor suffering from meloncholy comes to the magic pool with healing powers to be healed of his troubles and his gloom and sadness but the angel guarding the water tells him he cannot enter. The man says, 'but how can I live this way?' the angel again says, 'I'm sorry this moment is not for you, this healing is not for you'. So the doctor again pleads 'but I have to get into the water, I can't live this way' And the angel then says...no this moment is not for you, and he says, but how can i live this way? And the angel says to him, doctor, without your wounds, where would your power be? it is your melancholy that makes your lower voice tremble into the hearts of men and women, the very angels in heaven cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children of this earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living...in loves service, only wounded soldiers can serve....
truth is communicated through brokenness, sadness and vulnerability...and our scars should always remind us of this
I dedicate this blog to the lovely Jen Gray
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Scars are memories we did not choose to keep but are kept for us least we rose tint them.
Often accused of excess optomism it has been when I have revealed my scars that I have acquired the closest friendships.
'These relics of rememberance are just like shipwrecks...I found the map to buried treasure, and even if we come home empty handed, we'll still have our stories, our battlescars, of pirate ships and wounded hearts, broken bones and all the best of friendships.'
Scars always tell stories - that's what makes them so interesting -and sometimes it's the least outwardly visible ones that are the deepest and the hardest to share.... no wonder often the closest bonds are formed when we trust enough to share the deepest parts of us.
Doesn't everyone do the "What's this scar and what's that scar" conversation at the start of relationships in the 'getting to know you' bit?
It's also a sign that you survived to tell the tale!
True :-)
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