Illness Can Be a Gift

A commitment to the unfolding

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I’ve been dreaming about physical difficulties; in one dream, I could not see well enough to care for my children. In another, I could hardly move.

These dreams are not hard to read, given my recent heart stent surgery. I’m processing that event night and day. It was so frightening, and yet it was so easy, as a progression. Chest pain, ambulance, ER…