Love has to go through darkness and pain and endurance and a stark acceptance before it can come out into the far light of the sun.
~ from THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN by Madeleine L'Engle
This is the bright home
In which I live,
This is where
I ask
My friends
To come,
This is where I want to love all the things
It has taken me so long
To learn to love.