Some transformations are created 

through anguish.

You break.

But each time,

you are restored,

though not to the

same person you were.

There is purpose in the alchemical fires of loss.

What burns away are attachments.

What does the burning is God.

What’s left is a chastened and wiser soul

in deeper communion with the sacred.

Spiritual transformation continues throughout life

as God remakes our being

until there is nothing left but love.