Status Updates From The Deepest Place: Sufferin...

Pain is the physical, emotional distress caused whereas suffering is measured in time, an abandonment unlike Adam and Eve perceiving God’s action in Eden under the lies of Satan, bringing isolation and shame. Our brain works in the nine of attunement that suffering is temporal and narrative, and pathways form as we repeat the stories. Suffering cause by others, ourselves, and the two time zones.

Jesus Christ, the hope of glory. Glory, the mutually satisfiying love and presence between the Father and Son in the power of the Spirit we are invited to, who sees us, loves us and wants to be with us, transforms our shame to hope through a community who even at the zenith of our darkest confessions does not run away but maintain the same gaze of love and acceptance, healing us and making us whole, a glimpse of hope

The metaphor of standing gives imagination and physicality of us being embodied creatures, where all our senses are animated before thinking, bottom to top, right to left. It coincides with what Jim Wilder says, and our trauma and pain wants us to bypass instead of revisit it. Dust and breath reminds us we are body then spirit, not body as bad. The presence of Jesus provides the space to stand, in spacious fields.