Love Restores the Blocked Heart

Guilt and shame are tricky medicines. At first they keep us awake. Then they become the chains that keep us from ever coming home. There was once a man who carried a wound older than this lifetime. He didn’t remember the moment it began—only the echo of it. A quiet voice in his bones whispering, “You don’t deserve love. You don’t deserve joy. You must pay.”

So he did.