Healing of Past Hurts
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:53 pmHealing of Past Hurts
Benjamin Franklin once said Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Tonight we are reading from Isaiah 61:1 He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison. We have all had disappointments and losses. Many of us have experienced abandonment and betrayal. We absorb many of these painful experiences, learn something and move on. Sometimes however, something happens that is so rough that we get stuck in it. The bad experience becomes a reference point for what we can expect form other people. It starts to become a reference point for what we expect form other people, from ourselves and from life itself. We find it very difficult to trust and to start out in neutral with new people.
Some people in your life may tell you to Get over it.
Benjamin Franklin once said Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Tonight we are reading from Isaiah 61:1 He has sent me to bind up and heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the [physical and spiritual] captives and the opening of the prison. We have all had disappointments and losses. Many of us have experienced abandonment and betrayal. We absorb many of these painful experiences, learn something and move on. Sometimes however, something happens that is so rough that we get stuck in it. The bad experience becomes a reference point for what we can expect form other people. It starts to become a reference point for what we expect form other people, from ourselves and from life itself. We find it very difficult to trust and to start out in neutral with new people.
Some people in your life may tell you to Get over it.