The Healing Began
Feeling dirty, ashamed and damaged,
she hid her story.
Not knowing that the woman next to her also hid hers,
and the next woman and the next.
Finally someone whispered the truth and their eyes meet,
and their tears came,
their heads nodded softly,
and their arms reached our.
Holding each other gently,
telling their stories, the healing began.
Terri St. Cloud
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God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.
~ Hazrat Inayat Kahn ~
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.
~ Maya Angelou ~
~ Maya Angelou ~
"I am free of the past"
