Spirituality Classroom Blog
With Healing Comes Creativity – and More, Much More
Oct 01, 2020
Last week I explained how I came up with these three phrases:
- Rendered by life’s events
- Transformed by Christ
- Empowered by the Holy Spirit
If you didn't read last week's blog, I invite you to do so now.
Each one of those phrases represents a part of the healing process from having been spiritually abused. There comes a time when the pain and suffering have had their say in “rendering” us. We realize that we can’t carry it any longer. We’ve had it. And so we sur-render to our Maker.
The Latin prefix “sur” means “over” or “above.” We have given over our “rendering” by life's events, to the Lord who loves us unconditionally. And now he can “sur-round” us with his loving comfort and healing presence.
There’s a song I can remember singing a few decades ago called “His banner over me is love.” Exactly. ...