Thank you for sharing this loving experience, Sheri. I felt peace even while you recounted the brutality. Forgiveness is the closest I've ever felt to being reborn. It's a pristine moment of separation when all the involved souls go to their rightful place. And the forgiving is free to take sole responsibility for what comes next. By some measure, we all have horrible things to go through. I smiled with subtle joy as I read. I felt a kindred bond of strength, having experienced similar meditative or life-changing events. This piece indeed expressed the fiery passion that is you.