The bad news was that a friend’s leg was severed in a gruesome automobile accident. The good news was that it was surgically reattached. A few months later she asked if I wanted to see her scar. I swallowed hard and said, “Sure.” There it was, a raw hollowed-out scar on her thigh—clearly not yet fully healed. She smiled and said, “It’s OK, they tell me that a wound this deep has to heal from the inside out.”
We’re all wounded. Pain is the price we pay for being human. The good news is that there’s also healing. Usually, we want healing to come from outside, but Band-aids and…
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