Williams on hurt and healing
If we believe we can experience our healing without deepening our hurt, we have understood nothing of the roots of our faith.
- Rowan Williams, The Wound of Knowledge (Cowley: 1990), 30.
Healing requires a deepening of hurt because the problem is worse than we think. Telling the truth of the depth of our need is painful, but necessary for our healing.
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A message for the whole communion, too, isn't it?
Blessed are those who mourn...
indeed, it's only when the problem hurts so much that the continuing of it would hurt more than the solution that we even seek healing.
that is, when a problem exists, you can minimise it, explain it away and justify it only for so long; recognising the enormity of a problem is the necessary first step before seeking healing.
(i don't think this is as straightforward as it may at first sound. i think.)
Thank you for that. Much to think about.
As Christians we seem sometimes to be too eager to tell someone who's hurting that 'God always works for the good of those who love him', rather than simply mourning with them.
you nailed it
His analysis seems to overlook something enormously significant to the process of healing...
The ITCHING!
(As the current owner of a few stitches, I had to get that off my chest, as it were)
THanks Byron for that quote. I make a similar comment in my coming series on John 16. This a good quote.
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