Another person’s description of the importance of feeling our pain.
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Thanks For sharing this excellent, yet very sad, article on your website Karen. I remembered hearing about this young man, Pastor Davey, loosing his wife in the home invasion while his little baby was asleep and thankfully left unharmed. Yet a news story doesn’t resonate the true heartache of his loss, and the aftermath of trying to heal from the pain. I read what he wrote and visited his church website; I saw him and his wife talking together and photos of them with their baby. Now he becomes more real to me..more familiar, his heartache becomes real, and I can put myself in his shoes and try to imagine how I would be feeling if something that tragic happened to me or one of my children. But thinking about his experience, or Levi’s, made me realize that I too, have suffered extreme pain and loss…not from a crime occurring as what happened to his wife Amanda, but in other tragic events that have occurred in my lifetime. I have tried to block out the pain so I don’t feel the immense hurt of the moment; but in time, I allow myself to feel the grasp of the hurt and memories; and allowed God to soak every crevice of my damaged heart with His grace, comfort and healing powers so I can move forward and begin to heal. I can’t do life and be authentic unless I allow myself to feel the sore parts as well as the good parts of me. I greatly appreciate your ministry through this blog Karen. God Bless you and your family. Hi to Dave…so happy for Anna.
Thank you, Cathy! I hope people read your comment…another real person who is moving toward the pain and healing!!! 🙂