nhkramer

A Dressing for Anxiety

Posted by nhkramer | 3rd July 2007

I feel healed. I feel like I might know what peace is--could be. I guess I feel joy. I feel my blood running without constriction, my lips tingling when they're supposed to, my eyes resting for sleep and not for escape. I am lifted up so that the weight I carry is still on my shoulders but I don't feel it. The weight is there to keep me focused, keep me grounded, keep me strong, but it doesn't make me slower or make me ache. I could give credit to her: her eyes, her touch, the lipstick on her teeth, her quiet voice--but she is only a gift and the giver is the true healer. I feel loved, then, not only by her, but especially by the giver because of her. I am loved. I am loved. I am trying to believe it. And I am gracious.

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