7/24/2019 This is the Doorway

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This is the doorwayThe ThresholdWhen we are not yet through it we call it Pain

We must know it leads somewhereFor Im going through it we sayExpecting to come out the other side

Hes really going through iteans he is really su!ering"tuck in the doorway poor soul

#ammed

Then Hes come through it we say$s i% hes emerged somewhere&ut where is he'

They tell us that Pain is a symptom$ message %rom oursel(es

That something is wrong"omething that needs attention)iagnosisPills$ (isit to the )octora*or surgery perhaps'

&ut supposing this message is really a reminderThat we are mortalThat we are complexThat there is more to us than meets the eye

That it is time to meet someone"omeone whos +een with us all our li(esWho draws our +reath

,o(erns our heart +eat$d*usts the circulation o% our +loodediates +etween hot and cold&etween %ast and slow

Tenderness and anger-ourage and despair,rie% and lo(eIt is time to meet oursel(es

$nd this is the person who sa(es usWho knows how to get through the door