Broken Open

"My untested heart was broken.  What I thought was certain - my marriage- became uncertain.   What I thought was beyond reproach showed signs of humanness.   What I wanted to believe was different from the rest of the world- wasn't.   Thus begin my descent.   On the way down, I turned and met the friendly forces, and felt the hands of transformation begin to work on me.   I would not trade those years for anything, but had I never stumbled down the mountain of my ideals, had my ego not been humbled by loss, and my heart broken open by pain, I would not have discovered the secret treasure that lies waiting for each of us at the bottom of our most difficult times."  Elizabeth Lesser