The uses of sorrow
Picture from here.
The Uses of Sorrow
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
Mary Oliver
(John Piper posted this on Facebook this morning, which means many have perhaps already seen it. I do like Mary Oliver's poetry, which I have posted here before, and received her book A Thousand Mornings for Christmas.)