Are Trauma Responses Sinful?
Many spiritual people walking with God try hard to soldier on with a smile believing they should be unaffected and without impact. This is bad theology and is a form of a health and wealth gospel that treats spirituality as a means to an end to achieving physical and emotional equilibrium.
When the Hurt Lingers
We live in a culture with an incredibly short attention span! When it comes to pain, our patience is even shorter. We are uncomfortable around the hurting. While we readily accept that a broken bone needs time to heal, we rarely allow ourselves the same grace when healing from emotional wounds.