The Key to All Doors

“Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.” 

May Sarton, author and poet

 May Sarton was a prestigious Radcliff professor until it was revealed that she was lesbian.  She left the faculty to live in a New Hampshire home in the woods before moving to an Oceanside cottage in York, Maine.  Her novels, journals and poems were countless; she won occasional poetry prizes.  Most of all what impressed me about her was the series of journals, one in particular—“The Journal of Solitude”—in which she comes face to face with her loneliness, personal wounds and they become a source of inspiration for her.  Isaiah declares—“by his wounds we are healed”—which the New Testament understands as the work of Jesus on the cross.  The love given away comes from the One who authored our lives in the beginning—each individual, and it is May Sarton who stepped through that forbidden world and leads others through it as well.