The great Christian mystic, Julian of Norwich, wrote: "First there is the fall, and then the recovery from the fall. Both are the mercy of God." As a species, we praise the rebound of the fallen, but rarely, if ever, the fall that necessitated the rebound. But what if both are manifestations of divine mercy? Without the fall there is no rising, and without a death there can be no resurrection. In our fight to grow, mature, and push past old things that "no longer serve us," we often leave behind whole swaths of our history, and in so doing lose ourselves entirely. The call is not to transcend and abandon our past, but to transcend and to include it. Both the fall and the recovery are gifts, and both are to be received with thanksgiving.

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