Grief

Perhaps you, too, have had the experience of thinking that you were finally healed of some great trauma in your life, only to have raw feelings emerge, triggered by something someone said or did, or by nothing at all.  Grief is like that.  

Healing is a long process of learning to live in spite of life's tragedies.   The healing of grief is not like the healing of a wound where the wound can heal and is gone forever.  The event that triggers grief is never gone.  There remains within us an experience that deepens our soul and allows us to fully understand the sorrow that is a part of life.  For good reason, those feelings remain, so that we can be more compassionate human beings.  And so they can rise to the surface when needed such as when another is suffering and needs to know that we indeed do understand.  But sometimes they just rise to the surface . . .