Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal

Wonderful stories of people facing death.

A few quotes:

“The relationships in which we are truly seen and heard are holy relationships. They remind us of our value as human beings. They give us strength to go on. Eventually they may even help us transform our pain into wisdom.”

“Over time, our vulnerability may become our strength, our fear may develop our courage, and our woundedness may be the road to our integrity.”

“Most people have come to prefer certain of life's experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the things that come wrapped in plain or even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all cost, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk, we often cheat ourselves of discovery; in denying our suffering, we may never know our strength or greatness.”

“Becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy.”

“One of the blessings of growing older is the discovery that many of the things I once believed to be my shortcomings have turned out in the long run to be my strengths, and other things of which I was unduly proud have revealed themselves in the end to be among my shortcomings. What a blessing it is to outlive your self-judgments and harvest your failures.”