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gentle embrace of others to make this journey.

And this is where spiritual companions come
in. They walk along with us, acting as faithful
mirrors, reflecting and providing perspective as
we wrestle with our pain. Listening, deeply and
committedly. Witnessing, and thereby encour-
aging. Letting us know that we are not alone.
Plunging in with us, even as they remain still,
quiet and unobtrusive by our side.

Allowing us to marvel as those imaginal spiri-
tual disks reveal themselves, and as our wounds
compost into the fertilizer that becomes the
sustenance of our aspiring souls. Facilitating our
travel through our hurts so that we may be able
to arise into the light of God, the wonder of the
Universe, free-flowing, and unfettered.

This is a journey without a destination, a foray
into deeper and deeper recesses of the unknown.
And the price of admission is steep, requiring the
death of what we used to know and hold on to,
even our most dearly held notions of the Divine.
“For a soul will never grow until it is able to let go Listen
of the tight grasp it has on God,” as San Juan de la
Cruz said.
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