12/08/2019
Even trees have scars and yet they continue to grow!
Just because something happened a long time ago doesn’t mean it hasn’t stayed with you like a scar. It also doesn’t mean you can walk away from it without working through it—sometimes many times over throughout your life—with God, with a trained counselor, with trusted individuals.
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“Scars—noticeable evidence of significant wounds or injuries— are not admissions of healing failure. Scars speak to the reality of human woundability not only in our visible, physical selves, but also in our unseen rational, emotional, relational, and spiritual natures. They challenge our longing to control the effects of living in a sin-broken world as, and with, Sin-broken people. Scars call us to more realistic expectations of recovery in the presence of sin.”
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Dr. Sandra Wilson’s book, The World According To Me: recognizing and releasing our illusions of control, addresses how so many of us have yet to fully relinquish childhood magical thinking and survival skills that helped us understand and control our lives.