I Become Light

I become light, I become free, not by ridding my experience of hurt and loss, but by embracing them without resistance. The hurt still aches, the grief yet stings, but the pain is clothed in a new element that is liquid, even luminous, rather than solid. Pain can be a transforming current rather than a fixed weight, when I become its conductor rather than its obstacle. Whoever said that divine energy would never flow through us as hurt, as sorrow, on its way to the ocean of the heart?

Detail: The Lamentation by Botticelli