What do you do when emotional healing is needed? When there are wounds so deep it seems they will never heal? You want to stop crying, but the tears continue to fall. You want to trust again, but you remember. You look for the sun, but then you pull the shades. Just as dirt is tilled before planting seeds, our souls must be tilled so healing can take place. A story unfolds within these poems, one of love and pain, loss and loneliness, but then healing begins to take place just as each word is read. This healing is the tilling process for our souls. Overcome with fear and grief after experiencing two major life-altering events sixteen months apartadivorce and deathawhat was always a hobby and passion soon became therapeutic and later proved to be healing for the author. In order to reap the abundance of love in ourselves and in our lives, we must begin and learn how to till our souls.