We’ve got a way of focusing on
every traumatic event as if it is
forever speaking into our life;
We even call it “our story”.
And yet, when I read things like
the story of Shadrach, Meshach, &
Abednego (Daniel 3), where they
came out of the fire, unfazed &
unscathed.., I’m entirely inspired;
I don’t think we realize just how
“not the products of life” we are!!!
Have we “been through”?
I’d say every one of us have,
in some way or another
(To what end would it serve to
“compare hells”?. . 
);
And yet, He tells us our “eye is the
lamp of our body”
-Respectfully, I don’t think there’s a
single traumatic experience that
has the ability to so govern us,
but that we believe it to:
We responded (many of us, real
young) to how this or that unfolded,
and now we’ve got this baggage 
from [perceived] `needs ’ not being
met, and it’s all just looking for Love,
not knowing that that’s what we’re
the spitting Image OF. . . 
I’m not being insensitive or dismissive,
I’ve just seen too many people
wear their life story for years,
“healing” (but not), when it’s a
matter of seeing your
(and simultaneously, everyone else’s)
precious, precious worth, and not
meriting that based on how anyone
else besides Jesus did or didn’t
‘‘do’’ them-
That’s the worst kind of trauma:
Self-induced 
.
None of us are condemned for
seeing in such a way;
But at some point, you realize we’ve
an invitation to awakening to
a great, GREAT privilege:
“Christ in you (embodied), [ever-Present, tangible] Hope of Glory”.
We can live this way,
it just starts with humility;
The childlike (not child*ish*)
openness of heart-
And never stops . . . .
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