Hold Me: A Testimony

This book terrified me, but it revealed a hidden strength that I'd had all along.

Photo by Alexey Stiop

The precious relief of abandoning loneliness for communion is a human right. Yet some people go their whole lives and never find it, despite their best efforts. Some believe that it isn’t worth pursuing at all, and that total independence is the ultimate realization of personhood. I don’t know how to hold that thought in my mind, be…