This helps me to see confession in a completely different way! I think it may be common to go through life living on the surface and not truly sharing ourselves with others. Before I began my own healing work, I was not very aware of my own inner world. (Or maybe that part of me was frozen.) I remember using writing and creativity to make it through what I lived as a child. Somewhere along the line, I seemed to lose that—or leave it behind. I really think that had to do with what I believed God wanted of me as a believer and as a pastor's wife.
Isn't it interesting how we believe that we need to "grow up" when Jesus said that we should become like children. Another reason why healing is a spiritual practice--it allows us to return to the simplicity of children--or how we should have been as children.
This helps me to see confession in a completely different way! I think it may be common to go through life living on the surface and not truly sharing ourselves with others. Before I began my own healing work, I was not very aware of my own inner world. (Or maybe that part of me was frozen.) I remember using writing and creativity to make it through what I lived as a child. Somewhere along the line, I seemed to lose that—or leave it behind. I really think that had to do with what I believed God wanted of me as a believer and as a pastor's wife.
Isn't it interesting how we believe that we need to "grow up" when Jesus said that we should become like children. Another reason why healing is a spiritual practice--it allows us to return to the simplicity of children--or how we should have been as children.