Love letters from Celeste

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A few words on radically meeting pain (not for the faint hearted)

Don't make it go away. Don't think about what you're grateful for. Don't take a deep breath and listen to the birds sing. Don't have positive thoughts.

Instead, look straight into its fiery eyes and say: Take me to the bottom.

Take me to the place I know I come from, that unforgiving blackness that spit me into this life. Pull me down, and show me the real me. Press me down with your heavy blanket of grief & despair so that I must reach for the hand of god, which is my own hand, to pick me up again.

Because then - and only then - will I be free. Then I shall know mercy. Then I will meet grace. And then you, pain, become my strongest ally and oldest friend.

Nobody, not even God himself, can avoid turning their gaze towards the dark womb of the Mother.