On My Mind Monday

The next day I asked Cookie, "Do you think broken people are better?"

"It's a big price to pay," she said with tears in her eyes. "But yes. I do."

~ Kelly Corrigan
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I say a thousand times yes to this. The hard stuff makes us soft. Broken people have weathered life's storms so they know how to be beacons, life preservers and load-stone rocks.