I saw a movie lastnight.  It wasn't "edge of your seat" entertaining but there was a line in the closing act that was most assuredly meant for me . The main character said, "sometimes its necessary to spend time in new worlds in order to better understand our own." 

I said to myself, wow, this may be exactly what that last few years have been.  Life is a journey my friends and we rarely understand what is happening at the time its happening.  Reflection is a magical, poetical, incredibly insightful process.... Once the pain subsides, once the glory dulls, once the moment fades, once the curtain falls, once the shines no longer glows...we have only our memories to reflect upon and hopeful time to understand what the heck happened.  We can learn so much from ourselves if we take the time to reflect on our lives.

The whole idea is to learn.  Learn and grow and seek to understand all things, good and bad & hopefully the wounds fade to scars and the scars disappear....