Depression and Spiritual Growth

K. EPILOGUE

I would like to offer one final observation: If anyone asked me if I would volunteer to go through even a single day of 1986 or 1997 again, I would firmly decline. And yet if someone offered me some magical device that would allow me to reach back and change the events on the "worst days" of those years, I wouldn't use it. As terrible as they were, ultimately they made my life better. I wouldn't know what to touch! It all taught me what I urgently needed to know. I learned a lot! About myself, other people, and life in general. I am much happier these days than before. I have more to offer those around me. I feel that I have been touched by Grace, and I am extremely grateful for that. I have an ever-growing sense of compassion.

I guess I would sum it all up with the following quote:

One cannot reach the dawn
save by the path of night.

Kahlil Gibran
Sand and Foam

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