“Instead of a road map, our experience gives us trail-blazing skills. It gives us a sense of the geology of the borderlands: where springs are likely to be found, where gentle slopes may give way to dangerous cliffs, which passes may offer a thoroughfare and which are likely to be dead ends. The errors and troubles by which we gain this insight form part of the insight itself.”
-L. William Countryman, Living on the Border of the Holy
A patient’s mother, at the hospital where I work as a chaplain, expressed this idea, referring to her own experience of infant loss guiding her support of her daughter’s infant loss:
“The thing that helped what the experience itself.”
I loved her comment, and appreciated today’s quote.
Thank you.