Trauma, whether it is the result of something done to you or something you yourself have done, almost always makes it difficult to engage in intimate relationships. After you have experienced something so unspeakable, how do you learn to
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“The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma, or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it.”
― In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
― In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
“All creation is made “for” and oriented “to” God — and it is summed up and brought to its fitting conclusion and destiny in Jesus. Then at Jesus’ name every knee will bow — in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth (i.e., the dead) — and every tongue confess him as Lord (Phil. 2:9 – 11).23 All will be subject to Christ, and then Christ will subject himself to the Father on behalf of creation, so that God will be “all in all” (1 Cor. 15:28).24 That is the kind of end I would expect for the biblical story.”
― Four Views on Hell
― Four Views on Hell
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