Caring for Another Wounded Soul

There comes a moment, in healing, when your gaze naturally begins to turn outward again — and that too is a sign that you are getting better. I'm not rushing you: you can only help once you have something to give from. But as your heart is remade, God can use the very pain you carried to make you able to reach another wounded person. That scar of yours, which you thought was only suffering, becomes a credential: you understand the one who weeps because you wept too. You know what to say and what not to say, what helps and what hurts, because you lived it in your own skin. There's a special kind of healing that happens when we comfort someone — it's as if, in wiping away another's tears, part of our own dries up too. When you feel ready, and only when you feel ready, look around. There is always another soul in the night you once walked through. Your story may be the light she needs to believe morning will come.