Birthing Monsters & Love

"We know so perfectly how to give birth to the monsters inside us, but for reasons I will never figure out, we have not the slightest clue of what to do with all the love."    
[Christopher Poindexter]


It's terrifying to acknowledge that the "monsters" we give birth to have been quietly, and safely, gestating within us—until we are ready to deliver the full-term ugliness to those around us.  The strongest hurt comes not from a rash, spur-of-the-moment outburst, but from the hate that's been harbored out of view until it can do the most damage.  If only we could learn how to harness all the love…just imagine what we could do.  

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