It’s not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, confusion, terror and anger, a place where you can, like Dante, find yourself going down into Hell. But if it’s any comfort, the dark wood isn’t just that. It’s also a place of opportunity and adventure. It is the place in which fortunes can be reversed, hearts mended, hopes reborn. Amanda Craig
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So often, our lives are filled with the kind of things that should make us angry, but instead make us complacent. We are so used to them that we can’t see them for what they really are. We have become accustomed to the chaos in our lives, to the constant struggle to survive, to the fact that life is full of ups and downs. And so it is that we find ourselves saying something like, “Things are just fine.

I’m really happy. Everything is fine. Life is great.

I have everything I want.” Well, maybe not everything you want, but you think you do! And yet if you look closer, if you step out of the normal and slow down a little, you might just find yourself in a state of confusion and terror and anger and, yes, even Hell’s joyfulness!

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