"I want to feel closer to you, but I don't know how."

A story of healing

Healing can be but doesn’t have to be done in isolation. Context: this is a short story about my own healing journey. Initially, I only intended to jot this down into my journal. Yet there is an urge to do more than just that. I'm not just writing to heal myself. I know, with faith rather than with actual blog views (which is rather meager haha), that this matters to more than just me. I hope you find resonance here, and that you in reading, like me in writing this, are also enlivened. "We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship" -…

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