I’ve been listening to the musical Hamilton on my commute to work and yesterday heard the song that renders how Hamilton and his wife Eliza cope with a horrific tragedy in their lives.
What the lyric suggests repairs their broken hearts is a “grace too powerful to name.”
When tragedy strikes our lives, our loved ones, friends, or the world, it is difficult to trust there is something stronger than our disappointment or sorrow.
Poet Mary Oliver calls the place where “grace and imagination” dwells the “Other Kingdom.”
Meaning, it is real, powerful, beyond our immediate reality, but at the same time it is a place that will open its doors to welcome us whenever we choose to visit.
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