Deep and wide

“On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.” Chris Cleave, 'Little Bee'

I cannot believe I get to have this exquisite and perfectly tailored growing experience called life. Too often I forget how I am being shaped. And that I will be better for it. My eyes see more. More pain, more joy, more opportunities to serve. My heart loves more. More deep. More wide. And on and on and on. My scars have brought me to feeling in a way that nothing else could.