Leaving My Heart Open - by Tara Monjazeb - Devotions

Notes on heartbreak, from the French/Swiss border

None of us are strangers to heartbreak. In today’s times, an instantaneous flood of tragedy breaks as soon as we unlock our phones, through the veins of our fingertips that lead directly to the heart. We each hold a piece of the world’s grief in our hands. Sometimes this can make us recognise the heaviness of our own, what we carry without realising. More often than not, we have to grapple with the pain of letting go of something that could’ve been, or something that was but no longer is. Of course, there are the big things: passed family members, break-ups, friends we lost contact with,…

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