No escape

No escape

When the heart is hard, protected, it is difficult to understand the pain caused others, until it is experienced.  It is then that reflection on our own actions can bring this deep healing, and in the process allows us all to be healers of others, by the bestowing of mercy, just as God does for us.  There is a cost in showing mercy, just as there is in not showing it.  It is simply the way things are, there is no escape.