More thoughts from "Making Peace with Your Past"

[djsamwise]

In the following chapters after the self assessments of past wounds, Wright deals with resentments, changing and how to deal with these discoveries. I found allot of it to be to be tried and true methodologies of both cognitive behavioral therapy and good Christian counseling.

The primary task after recognizing that you are still affected by

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[cess]

True that, but just don't hold it aganst your parnets. They need to hear the truth as much as you do. That depiste there flaws God loves them too.

[djsamwise]

That's exactly it. In the past few entries on this subject I've focused on 1. Uncovering and understanding where your pains are coming from and 2. Learning not to reapply those same wounds to yourself. In the next entry I'm digging into exactly what you say, not holding it against them any more. The ultimate goal is to be healthy, more like Christ. This means having grace and forgiveness.

More in the next entry. ;)

[cess]

Culz

[trogdor_dragun]

'“You’ll never read/study/pray/have faith enough to be acceptable or holy” Can you beat that lie? I challenge you my friend to read through the opening to Ephesians. Take with you those lies that stuck to your heart. See what God says about them in light of that Scripture.'

-I'd also suggest Galatians, namely chapter 3. Galatians 3:3 says, "Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?" So Paul's response seems to be, "Yeah, you never will be able to read/study/pray/etc...enough to become holy. But my works aren't what saved me in the first place. The grace of Jesus did! And the grace of Jesus is what makes me holy!"