Have you been neglected by your earthly shepherds? Did they flee when the wolf came? Or was your shepherd himself a wolf? You can take heart that the Triune God wants you to tell your story. He welcomes your words of spiritual trauma.
I never considered Nathan a major speaker in John’s Gospel! Thanks for pointing that out and the perspective you help us see in it. Will be pondering this next time I read through John!
Thanks John :-). I’m more and more coming to believe that chapters 9-10 are central to the overall message of John (and not just because they happen to be in the center; they might be in the center because John intended them to be central!)
I never considered Nathan a major speaker in John’s Gospel! Thanks for pointing that out and the perspective you help us see in it. Will be pondering this next time I read through John!
Thanks John :-). I’m more and more coming to believe that chapters 9-10 are central to the overall message of John (and not just because they happen to be in the center; they might be in the center because John intended them to be central!)
I love that observation!
Judith Lewis Herman said a terrible thing about victims in her book Trauma and Recovery’. Want to know what it was? Watch this Masterclass in Language and Violence, by Dr Linda Coates. https://cryingoutforjustice.blog/2023/09/11/language-and-violence-masterclass-by-dr-linda-coates/