Monday 1 October 2007

"A Wounded Spirit who can bear?"

asks the Book of Proverbs (18,14).

That's a rhetorical question, and the answer, -by the look of things, is "no one, -neither the person who's been wounded, nor their kith, kin or neighbours."
A wounded spirit is ultimately extremely self-destructive. It makes for completely unreasonable reactions to the most innocent of overtures: outbursts of anger, tantrums, self-pity and so-on.
The good news is: it can be healed:

1 The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,
(quote from NIV; Biblegateway.com)

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