Ep. 2 Suffering: The Thorn and The Rose

In this episode I discuss how our greatest tragedies can ultimately lead us to growth through the gift of grace. This is the lesson of Suffering, the first of the 7 lessons I learned from my hospice patients. 

This episode includes:

• How my father’s suicide changed the trajectory of my life.
• Why the remedy for pain is found “inside the pain” as Rumi wrote.
• There is no “other side” of the tunnel of grief.
• How our grief journey can only be viewed clearly in retrospect.
• How to “burn our pain as fuel”.
• The meaning of grace and how it arrives as a mystery.
• How sorrow prepares us for joy.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace–only that it meets us where we are, but does not leave us where it found us. – Anne Lamott