Wounded Healers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Transforming\nour Pain<\/strong>\nFriday, \u202fSeptember 18,\n2020<\/p>\n\n\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>If I were to name the Christian religion, I would\nprobably call it \u201cThe Way of the Wound.\u201d Jesus agrees to be the Wounded One,\nand we Christians are these strange believers in a wounded healer. We come to\nGod not through our strength but through our weakness. We learn wisdom and come\nto God not by doing it all right but through doing it all wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nyou were going to create a religion, would you think of creating, as your\nreligious image, a naked, bleeding, wounded man? It is the most unlikely image\nfor God, the most illogical image for Omnipotence. None of us in our wildest\nimagination would have come up with it. It must expose a central problem of\nhuman existence, for God to come into the world in this form and in this way.\nSadly, we Christians have become accustomed to the cross\u2014perhaps we have\ndomesticated it\u2014and we no longer receive the shock and the scandal of all that\nthis image of failure is saying. Being wounded, suffering, and dying are the\nquickest and most sure paths to truly living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using\na scapegoat is our much-preferred method. We deny our pain, sins, and suffering\nand project them elsewhere. This ancient method still works so well that there\nis no reason to think it is going to end or change. Until we are enlightened by\ngrace, we don\u2019t even see it; it remains safely hidden in the unconscious where\nit plays itself out. Once we spot and stop the pattern, the game is over. The\ncross of Jesus was a mirror held up to history, so we could spot the\nscapegoating pattern and then stop participating in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only\nthe Great Self, the True Self, the Godself, can carry the anxiety within us.\nThe little self can\u2019t do it. People who don\u2019t pray can\u2019t live the Gospel\nbecause the self is not strong enough to hold the anxiety and the fear. <em>If we do not transform our pain, we will always transmit\nit.<\/em> Always someone else has to suffer because we\ndon\u2019t know how to suffer; that\u2019s what it comes down to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most\npeople are like electric wires: what comes in is what goes out. Someone calls\nus a name, and we call them a name back. That is, most people pass on the same\nenergy that is given to them. Now compare an electric wire to those big, grey\ntransformers that you see on utility poles. Dangerous current or voltage comes\nin, but something happens inside that grey box and what comes out is, in fact,\nnow helpful and productive. That is exactly what Jesus does with suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is what Jesus did: he did not return the negative energy directed at him\u2014not during his life nor when he hung on the cross. He held it inside and made it into something much better. That is how \u201che took away the sin of the world.\u201d He refused to pass it on! Until the world understands that, there will be no new world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-18-at-9.56.25-AM-500x276.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-18-at-9.56.25-AM-500x276.png 500w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-18-at-9.56.25-AM-300x166.png 300w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-18-at-9.56.25-AM-768x424.png 768w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-18-at-9.56.25-AM.png 1972w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wounded Healers Transforming our Pain Friday, \u202fSeptember 18, 2020 If I were to name the Christian religion, I would probably call it \u201cThe Way of the Wound.\u201d Jesus agrees to be the Wounded One, and we Christians are these strange believers in a wounded healer. 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<\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>If I were to name the Christian religion, I would\nprobably call it \u201cThe Way of the Wound.\u201d Jesus agrees to be the Wounded One,\nand we Christians are these strange believers in a wounded healer. We come to\nGod not through our strength but through our weakness. We learn wisdom and come\nto God not by doing it all right but through doing it all wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If\nyou were going to create a religion, would you think of creating, as your\nreligious image, a naked, bleeding, wounded man? It is the most unlikely image\nfor God, the most illogical image for Omnipotence. None of us in our wildest\nimagination would have come up with it. It must expose a central problem of\nhuman existence, for God to come into the world in this form and in this way.\nSadly, we Christians have become accustomed to the cross\u2014perhaps we have\ndomesticated it\u2014and we no longer receive the shock and the scandal of all that\nthis image of failure is saying. Being wounded, suffering, and dying are the\nquickest and most sure paths to truly living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using\na scapegoat is our much-preferred method. We deny our pain, sins, and suffering\nand project them elsewhere. This ancient method still works so well that there\nis no reason to think it is going to end or change. Until we are enlightened by\ngrace, we don\u2019t even see it; it remains safely hidden in the unconscious where\nit plays itself out. Once we spot and stop the pattern, the game is over. The\ncross of Jesus was a mirror held up to history, so we could spot the\nscapegoating pattern and then stop participating in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only\nthe Great Self, the True Self, the Godself, can carry the anxiety within us.\nThe little self can\u2019t do it. People who don\u2019t pray can\u2019t live the Gospel\nbecause the self is not strong enough to hold the anxiety and the fear. <em>If we do not transform our pain, we will always transmit\nit.<\/em> Always someone else has to suffer because we\ndon\u2019t know how to suffer; that\u2019s what it comes down to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most\npeople are like electric wires: what comes in is what goes out. Someone calls\nus a name, and we call them a name back. That is, most people pass on the same\nenergy that is given to them. Now compare an electric wire to those big, grey\ntransformers that you see on utility poles. Dangerous current or voltage comes\nin, but something happens inside that grey box and what comes out is, in fact,\nnow helpful and productive. That is exactly what Jesus does with suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is what Jesus did: he did not return the negative energy directed at him\u2014not during his life nor when he hung on the cross. He held it inside and made it into something much better. That is how \u201che took away the sin of the world.\u201d He refused to pass it on! 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