Benevolent Witness

"There's no pain on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness."

Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

Pain as fuel

"...and what I've learned about pain is, it is:

-not to be numbed
-and it is not to be ignored
-and it is not to be wasted

and I've going to use every bit of this pain as fuel."

and that's how you know you can be redeemed.

-Glennon Doyle Melton

Pain is not a hot potato

"When I feel someone's been unkind, I know that all that just happened is they felt the hot loneliness. But they don't know how to be still with it. So they just treat it like a hot potato and pass it on to the next person.

But pain is not a hot potato. Pain is a traveling professor. And it just goes and nocks on everyone's door, and the smartest people I know are the people that say come in, and don't leave until you've taught me what I need to know."

-Glennon Doyle Melton