ALIVE AGAIN
There are times when all of us need to be brought back to life. We need to know that the sleepless nights won’t last, that the days consumed by despair will become easy again (or at least easier), that the world goes on and us with it, changed but alive again. And that happens. And we learn that it happens in very quiet ways. There are few lightening flashes or glorious visions. There are many less dramatic agents of resurrection. There is a phrase in a conversation with a friend that all of a sudden opens up a way that wasn’t there before. There is the person you haven’t known long and don’t know very well who seems to understand your death so well it’s uncanny, and who says to you the words you would say to yourself if you weren’t too dead to say them. There is the relationship, broken for years, that somehow finally finds the grace to start to…
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