The Angel that Troubled the Waters

"A scene in Thorton Wilder's play,The Angel that Troubled the Waters .
The scene is a doctor who comes to the pool everyday,wanting to be healed of his melancholy and his gloom and sadness.Finally the angel appears.The doctor,he's a medical doctor,goes to step in the water.The angel blocks his entrance and says,'No step back,the healing is not for you.'
"The doctor pleads,'But i've to get into the water.I can't live this way.'
"The angel says,'No, this moment is not for you.'
"And he says,'But how can i live this way?'
"The angel says to him,'Doctor, without your wounds,where would your power be?It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble in the hearts of men and women.The very angels cannot themselves persuade the wretched and blundering children of this earth as can one human being broken on the heels of living.In love's service only the wounded soldiers can serve.'

Are we not really fortunate to be blessed with our troubles?Winds of depressions and frustrations continually blowing unabatedly in our lives,ravaging it and leaving their scars, are gifts for us.Intertwined with wordly failures we are the greatest achievers for only we have searched for and found the torch that gives light and that never dies out.As the vessel of our hearts are 'allowed' to be filled with rigors, what overflows is ,understanding.It is given us so we may not be mute any more but speak volumes to those who are in similar circumstances and are unable to see the light to be guided by. It is given us to become a stitch in their wounds,a stitch that Christ is putting in their lives"