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    Getting Through the Hurt
    Getting Through the Hurt
    Getting Through the Hurt
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    Getting Through the Hurt

    By Silas Henderson, Francis Wagner, Keith McClellan and

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    Sometimes life just seems to get the best of us. The wounds can cut very deep on occasion: addiction, divorce, grief, feeling unloved and unwanted, and so many others. And the scars may never entirely heal. However, our Christian faith urges us to recall that Jesus rose from the tomb with visible but transformed wounds, demonstrating that nothing in life is wasted in the economy of God’s mercy. Getting Through the Hurt offers timely reflections on how God’s grace gently permeates our wounds to give them meaning and transforms them into the means of discovering new life. Ultimately, God asks us to trust that His goodness will secure victory over all distress, division, and death, and this book serves as a guide for that journey of faith.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 14, 2015
    ISBN9781504016940
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      Getting Through the Hurt - Silas Henderson

      Chapter I

      When You Are Feeling Overwhelmed by Life’s Trials

      By Fr. Keith McClellan

      I was a six-year-old and in the first grade. I sat at the small, lift-top desk with its pencil groove and outmoded inkwell hole, trying to complete the addition and subtraction problems in my arithmetic workbook. Gradually, an intense sadness came over me. Then tears filled my eyes, falling once or twice on the page below. Despite my effort to hold them in, one or two of my classmates noticed me and went immediately to get the teacher.

      Sister Alypia came immediately. She asked me what the matter was. I couldn’t really say. She leaned down close to me so that her nun’s veil seemed a warm, protective tent around me. She whispered, You’re doing good work. It’s OK. That reassurance was all I needed.

      In retrospect, the tears might have been caused by guilt because I had been skipping problems that were too difficult. Perhaps the tears expressed homesickness or a passing melancholy.

      Adults do not always appreciate the weight of burdens that affect children. For us, troubles and trials have only a capital T. The root of the word overwhelm means to turn upside down, to capsize, to submerge. Anyone, at any age, at any time may feel overwhelmed. The size or seriousness of the trouble is not always the trigger for the crushing emotional effect. Each person has a different threshold for becoming overwhelmed.

      Let nothing trouble you, let nothing scare you;

      All is fleeting; God alone is unchanging.

      Patience, everything attains.

      Who possesses God, nothing wants.

      God alone suffices.

      —St. Teresa of Avila

      Trials are a fact of life from the moment we leave our mother’s womb and enter the unknown of the world outside. From then on, while we begin to encounter the beauty of creation and the marvels of living, we soon learn that the path ahead is not straight and unimpeded. We face obstacles, competing interests, physical limitations, environmental conditions, inconstant relationships, and the fickleness of human affairs. All these and more spell trials.

      I hope to offer a bit of wisdom and spiritual insight for coping with the overwhelming feelings that can accompany life’s trials. A meaningful life cannot be trouble-free. As the Lord Jesus experienced and taught, In the world you face persecution. But take courage; I have conquered the world! (John 16:33).

      Working your way through

      By tradition, a tiny sacristy to the side of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel is called the room of tears. A newly elected

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