Saturday, February 2, 2019

BEARING ONE-ANOTHER'S BURDENS







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I am very grateful to the makers of these three videos and wanted to share them
The facebook page of the creator can be found at: https://www.facebook.com/removedfilm/or view here. You may need to click 2 times.

I was adopted from a European orphanage and had a disrupted childhood due to family instability. As adults my wife and I foster parented a sibling group of similarly traumatized and emotionally reactive children. I have developed a great deal of resilience related to the events of my past, but to this day, I continue to be triggered. The pattern of the behaviors depicted is very accurate and honest, and the video story combined with the personal narration and flashback memories effectively captured the tangled but predictable logic that drives the chaos and injury these children and their families experience. More importantly it does so without presenting simplistic solutions or controlling judgments about either. It just leaves the tension and chaos hanging there in the air, which is truly the reality of the experience. But more than anything, I appreciated the redemptive solutions. This truth is painfully accurate in as much as both foster child and parent join together in learning and modeling resilience, both emotional and relationally often in mutual woundedness, the reality of consistency in strong but unselfish love proves to be the right medicine. Most of us would do almost anything to avoid experiencing the insecurity, self doubt, and fear that frequently consumes the hearts of these children. But in reality until the pain is known and experienced mutually we are often unable to model the solution.
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Friday, February 1, 2019

Spiritual Pride

Exaulting, defending and imposing our own will while
self righteously punishing opponents and detractors...
This Truly is our most intoxicating Spiritual Deception.

Will we follow in Christ's steps of (humble) obedience...
or expect Him to follow us in our selfrighteousness and zeal? 

Pause and Consider...
(Who) expressed the highest religious aspiration?

I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isaih 14: 13b-14

(Answer)
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
Isaih 14:12-13a

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaih 14:15
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