The Grace Gentle Touch

(notes for a Tablet article that remained unfinished – but worth sharing!) Every day I notice faces that ache to be touched.  As people come with heavy hearts for a healing conversation, or with heavy sins for Confession, I think about the last time that the anxious edges of around their mouths and eyes were touched by a loving hand.  Maybe never since childhood.  At our workshops on hand-massage, there’s nearly always someone who will […]