I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.

Perking up, the little girl said, “Is your head hurt mister, ‘cause you keep rubbing it?”Pausing, David said, “Ah, no. Sometimes it’s just the thoughts that hurt.

With God, my brokenness is nothing more than the platform from which He can demonstrate why He is God.

God has hewn out a hidden path more glorious, tantalizing and adventuresome than the path trod by most, and it is a path seen only through the eyes of our wounds, felt solely through the heart of our losses, and singularly traversed by those with a limp in their step.

It is quite amazing that the exact touch that we need to heal a single wound, or the life-altering revelation that begins the process of healing every wound can be handed to us in the poverty of a few simple words.

It’s not out of the heart that people do damaging things. Rather, it’s out of the wounds of the heart.

If you have a hole within you, trying filling the hole in someone else. If you do, in the end there will be two less holes.

Don’t think for a minute that the person next to you is not as wounded as you are. For if you can’t see their wounds, it’s likely that you have not made it safe enough for them to show them to you because you don’t feel safe enough to risk them seeing yours.

I don’t care’ is code for ‘I do care.’ But to deny the code is in fact ‘code’ for ‘I don’t want to be hurt.’ And in life, no amount of ‘coding’ is going to keep that from happening.