Sunny Depression by Yokko
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The process of healing or being reconciled is also a coming of age,
a taking responsibility for our lives.
Negative guilt and anxiety can often hold us in a prison
which in a paradoxical way can be strangely congenial.
As long as I am locked in this state I have the perfect alibi
for not engaging with life.
We need great trust in God working in us
as we allow ourselves to live and discover the freedom
that is the other side of all the brokenness
that has hitherto cramped and even paralyzed our lives.
- Wilfred McGreal in Guilt and Healing
The kind of healing and reconciliation to which Lent invites us is seldom a purely spiritual reality. Each of us is a mysterious combination of body and soul, each an individual who knows the self only in relation to other persons, the world around us and God. Healing and reconciliation may begin deep within our soul, our heart, our mind but they blossom in how we allow them to be incarnate in our life and loves.
-ConcordPastor
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