Transforming Pain: Embrace the Desert to Break the Cycle of Suffering

There’s only one way to heal pain — go down into it.

“If we do not transform our pain, we will most assuredly transmit it — usually to those closest to us: our family, our neighbors, our co-workers, and, invariably, the most vulnerable, our children.” Richard Rohr

Two of the most surprising things about the 20th century are that (1) it repeated world wars with certain regularity, and (2) those who started …