… bitterness is actually a seed of beautiful potential not yet planted in the rich soil of forgiveness?

The consideration of how to let tenderness in again.

pp. 208-209, seeing beautiful again, Lysa TerKeurst.

Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.

Where is the connecting thread, we wonder?
How can we ever pull this together into something that makes sense, something with purpose, something with meaning?

The scattered pieces will come together – the scattered pieces of yourself, your project, your life.
The connecting thread is love.

pp. 290 – 291, Journey to the Heart, Melody Beattie

… Like a weaver I have rolled up my life,
and he has cut me off from the loom;
day and night you made an end of me.