“We think of forest fires as these devastating events that we need to stop, but they are actually vital to the ecological health of an area. There are plants that require the heat of a wildfire for their seeds to burst open and plant themselves in the earth. There are others that are meant to be flammable, so that fires quells competition. As it turns out, forests are made to have a periodic cleansing by fire.

Your heart is made this way, also.”

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