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“I am making a home inside myself"...A shelter of kindness where everything is forgiven, everything allowed — a quiet patch of sunlight to stretch out without hurry,where all that has been banished and buried is welcomed, spoken, listened to — released.A fiercely friendly place I can claim as my very own.I am throwing arms open to the whole of myself — especially the fearful, fault-finding, falling apart, unfinished parts, knowingevery seed and weed, every drop of rain, has made the soil richer.I will light a candle, pour a hot cup of tea, gatheraround the warmth of my own blazing fire. I will howlif I want to, knowing this flame can burn throughany perceived problem, any prescribed perfectionism,any lying limitation, every heavy thing.I am making a home inside myselfwhere grace blooms in grand and gloriousabundance, a shelter of kindness that growsall the truest things.”-Julia Fehrenbacher -