Live in the Layers

It seems to me that our lives take us through different periods. Each one leaves a layer of evidence about what happened during that time, about what we did and what was done to us. Most of us have periods we would just as soon forget and becoming preoccupied with the crap that's always on the surface of our lives gives us an easy excuse to do exactly that.

But we become whole by having the courage to revisit and embrace all the layers of our lives, denying none of them, so that we're finally able to say, Yes, all of this is me, and all of this has helped make me who I am. When we get to that point, amazingly, we can look at all the layers together and see the beauty of the whole.