On one of Oprah's Lifeclasses was the subject of how you can rise up even from the darkest of times. Then she went on to say how sharing a painful experience of yours can help someone going through something just as painful. It made me think of someone reaching out their hand for you to grab a hold of just when you were slipping and about to fall. I felt a small twinge in me when I heard this. I thought to myself, "Can it be that sharing is what I am supposed to do? Can it be that easy, just telling my story?" To clarify, my life has not be easy. I think anyone who knows me will back me up on that. Though in the same breath I can honestly say, my life has been over flowing with love and laughter.
I have a gift of connecting with people. Maybe that is what God has in mind for me. To share what I know. To connect, to let others know they are far from being alone in their pain. I have found in talking to many women over the years, they carry around what I termed, a "heart hurt." 100% of the women I talked to had this. Their reasons about the why differed. But they all had something inside that they carried that caused them pain. Maybe I was just led to connect with those particular women. Maybe there is only one person out there who needs to hear what I can tell them. But one person is enough.
Now the question is where to begin? Which part of my life to begin with? One truth about life: The only way to recognize incredible joy is to have experienced incredible pain. There is no getting around it. Those are the stories I will share, along with some funny ones because I think laughter is the best cure of all.
I hope you come with me. Let's begin.
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