Another person’s description of the importance of feeling our pain.
2 Comments
Cathy
on April 20, 2016 at 11:28 am
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.
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!!! 🙂