Growing Down

George Clair Tooker

WHAT IS IT THAT WE LONG FOR?

“We want healing from illness, but it is through illness that we grow and are healed of our complacency. We are afraid of loss, and yet it is through what we lose that we are able to find what nothing can take away from us. We run from sadness and depression. But if we really face our sadness we find it speaks with the voice of our deepest longing; and if we face it a little longer we find that it teaches us…