we are all broken in some way..

Many people have described the importance of darkness and light.  Walt Whitman said, "Every moment of light and dark is a miracle and "J.R.R. Tolkien stated, "You can only come to the morning through the shadows."

These quotes ramble through my brain every time I go to work, bumping off of all of my mundane every day thoughts like a pin ball machine.  Every time that I set foot into a patient's room to meet them for the first time, to help them navigate through the murky waters of recovery- I hear these words.  This post is for all of us who have ever lost something, who have ever had to keep searching for the light. 

                image © held by AnnMarie Gitchell, 2013