Let us Always Remember This...

("the strength of a touch" ... my radiant
wise friend Rachel Awes)

"We all can influence the life force.

The tools and strategies of healing are so innate, 
so much a part of

a common human birthright, that we believers 
in technology pay

very little attention to them.

But they have lost NONE of their power.

People have been healing each other since the beginning.

Long before there were surgeons, psychologists, 
oncologists, and internists,

WE WERE THERE FOR EACH OTHER.

The healing of our present woundedness 
may lie in recognizing and reclaiming

the capacity we ALL have to heal each other, 
the enormous power

in the simplest of human relationships:

the STRENGTH of a TOUCH,

the BLESSING of FORGIVENESS,

the GRACE of someone else taking you 
JUST AS YOU ARE and 

finding IN YOU an unsuspected goodness.

EVERYONE ALIVE HAS SUFFERED.

It is the wisdom GAINED from our wounds and 
from our own experiences of suffering

 that make us able to heal.

Becoming expert has turned out to be LESS important than 

REMEMBERING AND TRUSTING 
the wholeness of myself and everyone else.

Expertise cures, but wounded people can 
BEST be healed by other wounded people.

Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, 

for the healing of suffering is 
COMPASSION, not expertise."

-Kitchen Table Wisdom - Stories that Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

(this piece was in my training materials for 
ART FOR HEALING 
that I am in the baby stages of taking part in ... 
thought it was so beautiful, I had to share.)


peaceandlove,
kolleen