“This is the razor edge of recovery: Your unwanted sexual behavior must change, but it also needs to be honored as a symbol of all the unprocessed anger of living in a dysfunctional system.”
― Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing
― Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing
“Unwanted sexual behavior is one of the most common avenues we pursue to reverse or reinforce the negative experiences we endured in childhood. Our goal is to study and grieve the conditions that led to our sexual brokeness, thereby reducing their power over our present.”
― Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing
― Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing
“If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.”
― Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing
― Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing
“Growing up in a rigid family system begets children who are often split off as either good or bad. Whether you become the golden child or the black sheep, your life reveals the pathology of a rigid family system. The black sheep of the family may look out of control, but if you listen to what drives his behavior and defiance, you will hear an honesty that rivals the truth-telling capacity of a biblical prophet. He refuses to live in a family that demands unquestioned loyalty to the tyranny of rigidity and, sadly, often squanders much of his life in defiant protest long after he leaves home. The consequences of his actions will certainly need to be engaged, but the recovery process of the black sheep is far easier than the golden child’s journey out of a life of self-righteousness and hiding.”
― Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing
― Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing
“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no damage that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
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