In this poem, Mark Nepo reflects on experiencing wholeness through allowing things to break.
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CLEAR ALL
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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I seemed to hear God saying, ‘Put down your gun and we’ll talk.’
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When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
I gave in, and admitted that God was God.
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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