Brokenness is a thing of beauty when out of brokenness comes a new configuration or new creation with even more beauty, depth, richness, or wisdom than what was. Regarding pain expanding one's capacity for joy, I believe our capacity for joy is great, maybe infinite, and it's our awareness of that capacity and use of that capacity that can expand. Personally speaking, pregnancy miscarriages resulted in adoptions that expanded my embracing my capacity for joy in children and raising children. Joy and capacity for joy with biological children seems a given; adopted children expanded my embracing more of my capacity for joy. Pain can generate wisdom and growth. What helps me expand in love is realizing that we are one. While we express many different ways and have many different experiences of life, we are expressions of one Being or Spirit, and love is awareness of that oneness and living from that awareness.
On Jun 30, 2023 David Doane wrote :