Freddy Lam’s Reviews > The Deepest Place: Suffering and the Formation of Hope > Status Update

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.

We think we are at war either God, others as well as ourselves. Jesus is peace, here to repair the rupture, to name places where we have experienced trauma so they can be healed when God is no longer distorted. Our various selfs according to Schwartz and Cook all form who we are as an integrated family, and the stories we tell to ourselves form patterns in our brain as it interprets and respond. Be curious.